Daily Medieval

Once Theodoric was King of Italy and essentially in charge of the Western Roman Empire, he did what he could to manage Rome as it would ha...

Much of the medieval attitude about music and its forms came from Boethius (c.480-524 CE). In his de institution music [Latin: "On th...

A 12th-century depiction of the Wheel of Fortune from the "Garden of Delights" book by Herrad of Landsberg The Wheel of Fortu...

Boethius (left, with numbers from India) debating Pythagoras (right, with an abacus) while Arithmetic looks on Boethius has been mentio...

In 1620, Sir Francis Bacon published Novum Organum ("The New Organon," by which he meant a new interpretation of nature). In it, ...

Among the accomplishments of Hermann of Reichenau , he also provides us with the set of rules for one of Europe's oldest board games, ...