Daily Medieval

One example of the "white mantle of churches" So...the Venerable Bede suggests that time be reckoned since the year of Christ...

Given all the fuss about the Mayan calendar, I thought it would be fun to look at other times when people thought the world might end. The E...

Approximately 1100 mappae mundi (maps of the world) have survived from the Middle Ages; about 200 are separate maps; the rest are in book...