Daily Medieval

Ibn Khaldun ( alias Abū Zayd ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Khaldūn al-Ḥaḍramī) was born 27 May 1332 in Tunis. He was a Muslim Arab from a...

 Cardinal Pelagio Galvani (c.1165 - 30 January 1230) was the papal legate leading the Fifth Crusade. He hailed from the Kingdom of León, and...

In 1244, allies of the Egyptian Mamluks, retreating westward from the advancing Mongols, stopped at Jerusalem long enough to recapture it f...

The Virgin Mary sits a-knitting in this 14th-century painting in Siena by Lorenzetti Naalbinding , a pre-knitting method of linking thr...

Coins from Kingdom of Jerusalem in British Museum (l. to r.) dinar (1162-75), Arabic bezant (1140-80), Christian bezant (1250-) [ source ]...

St. Anthony the Great is credited with being the first monk in that he did not just live an ascetic life, but also he removed himself fro...

Dimashq. دمشق. Dimishe'. al-Sh ām. The City of Jasmine. "Oldest continuously inhabited city in the world." Damascus. I...

In the Middle Ages, the evidence suggests that Ethiopia was a Christian nation surrounded by hostile Muslim territories. Medieval manuscript...

Yesterday's post mentioned a nail from Christ's cross that had been possessed by the Emperor Constantine (c.272-337), the first Chri...

The Classical and Middle Ages generated more Saints Anthony that you can shake a crozier at: Anthony of Antioch (d.302) Anthony the Hermi...

Coptic Icon of St. Mark Coptic Christians have suddenly been in the news, from a centuries-old fragment of papyrus with a supposed refer...