Daily Medieval

Knowledge of proper agricultural techniques waned in the thousand years following the fall of Rome, except in monasteries, where texts on so...

(If you want to see parts  one  and  two  and three .) If we follow Shakespeare's themes, King Henry V surprised his subjects when his c...

(If you want to see parts one and two .) The second part of the Hundred Years' War was the Caroline Phase, named after Charles V of Fra...

In what can be called the Edwardian Phase of the Hundred Years' War, King Edward III of England fought to keep what territory he had on ...

A 1552 map depicting the Bastille Yesterday was Bastille Day, the anniversary of French peasants storming the Bastille to release priso...

A city without bells is like a blind man without a stick. —Rabelais Rabelais (c.1494-1553) was a little late for this blog, but his state...