Daily Medieval

The BBC once suggested it was "Medieval Europe's greatest treasure." The Book of Kells is a Latin Gospel (with added material...

"Volcanic winter" is a frightening phrase. It is the result of a volcanic eruption that spews so much ash and dust into the atmosp...

History is written by the victors, or so it is said, and I was warned in graduate school always to question an author's intent. Everyone...

The Battle of Clontarf took place on 23 April 1014. It turned Brian Boru into a national hero, although that may have had more to do with pu...

A sign of Viking presence in Ireland: a Viking ship built in Dublin c. 1042 As alluded to in the post on King Edmund I , Ireland was th...

Halley's Comet on the Bayeaux Tapestry The nice thing about astronomy is that some celestial events are so predictably cyclical that...