Daily Medieval

There were many Theodorics in the Middle Ages, but only one was called "The Great." As the son of a king, and later a king himself...

After Genseric of the Vandals took over Carthage and made it the Vandal capital, they started looting up and down the Mediterranean. Their ...

The Merovingians were the predecessors of the Carolingians (Charlemagne's family) and can be considered the founders of France. I've...

A representation of the Battle of the Catalaunian Fields We mentioned here that the Huns under Bleda and Attila negotiated a treaty wit...

A 6th century Roman politician named Jordanes turned to writing history in his retirement. He wrote Romana , about Rome, and Getica , abou...

Today is the anniversary of Attila the Hun's attack on the town of Metz in Gaul. In the 1st century CE, the Roman historian Tacitus ...

What do you do when a dynasty seems to become useless? You name them Le Rois fainéants (The do-nothing Kings). The Merovingians are the...