Daily Medieval

Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger (1062 - 1137) was a Byzantine noble. As a general, he defended Constantinople when the army of Godfrey of B...

Anna Comnena (1083 - 1153) has had her own blog posts before ( here and here ). The daughter of Alexios I Comnenos and Irene Doukaina, she...

The Unified Kingdom of Georgia in the Middle Ages stretched from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea. When it was conquered by the Byzantine Em...

Among the groups in history that have long since disappeared, there are the Pechenegs. They were a semi-nomadic group that spoke a Turkic l...

Eastern façade of the Boukoleon Palace, facing the Sea. "Born to the purple." You may have heard the phrase before; it denote...

[I am on a brief vacation, so here is a post from the past. This post first appeared 2 December 2012.] When Anna Comnena was born in 10...

Anna Comnena in Byzantine mosaic Anna Comnena (1083-1153) was the daughter of an emperor ( Alexios I ), the wife of a Caesar, and the mo...