Daily Medieval

We are grateful that some people in the past chose to record what they saw and heard, or what they were told by others. Surviving histories ...

The House of Theophylact (the counts of Tusculum) ruled Rome for four generations. A grandson of the founding Theophylact I was Alberic II o...

Emperor Leo VI (shown here in a mosaic at the Hagia Sophia , prostrate before Christ) interfered with the state religion, even though it mea...