Daily Medieval

Marco Polo was not the first European to visit China—far from it—but he was the first to write a detailed account of his time there. And he ...

Now we approach the part that everyone knows about Kublai Khan even if they don't know anything about Kublai Khan. Kublai was emperor o...

Constans continued to do things that were uncommon for other Byzantine Emperors. He was the first Byzantine Emperor to visit Rome (in 663) s...

Movable type—the process of using interchangeable parts to create a page rather than carving/casting an entire page—revolutionized the produ...

After mentioning Fibonacci 's work, the Liber Abacus , it occurred to me that the place of the abacus in history deserved a little atten...