Daily Medieval

After Muhammad's death, the Muslim world expanded its reach quickly. Within a century, its reach extended from modern-day Afghanistan an...

The popularity in the Middle Ages of tafl , a type of table game, led someone to develop a version of it that could be used as a teaching to...

The modern Christian—any modern reader, in fact—might never have thought of vegetarianism as a practice with a Biblical or Classical history...

The winds of change blew quickly for christians in the Mediterranean in the early 4th century. Emperor Diocletian had persecuted christians ...

Empress Helena of Constantinople went to Palestine from 326-328CE to find Christian relics, consistent with her recent conversion to Christi...

Following on the heels of yesterday's discussion of Leap Day, I thought we should give some attention to the poor saint whose feast day...

You can get your own copy here The Leiden University Library in the Netherlands, founded in 1575, was an important part of the Enlighten...

Until the beginning of the fourth century historiography remained a pagan science. With the exception of the Acts of the Apostles and its ap...