Daily Medieval

The churches mentioned in this blog have been well-known Anglo-Saxon, Norman, or Gothic edifices, but there were numerous small churches in ...

...and the Poison of Kings are two nicknames given to arsenic. As early as the Bronze Age, the mineral arsenic was added to bronze to make i...

We talked a little about the history of poison here , but now it's time to look at what Medieval Europe had at hand for killing enemies....

Scrofula, characterized by swellings on the neck, is caused when someone inhales air contaminated with mycobacterium. The bacteria infect th...

Cannabis sativa from the 6th-century De Materia Medica of Dioscorides I was contemplating a post about Easter, which takes place this Su...

Yes, marshmallow. (Maybe Halloween has put me in mind of sweets.) Althaea officinalia (the "marsh mallow") is a perennial tha...