Daily Medieval

Marie de France's collection of 102 fables written in the late 12th century mostly come from Aesop and Avianus, but there are a few she ...

People love fables. Brief stories that offer a lesson or moral can be instructive as well as fun. A Castilian version of Arabic fables was m...

Marie de France (c.1160 - 1215) is called that because of one line from her writing: "Marie ai num, si sui de France." It means &q...

King Alfonso X's son, Fernando de la Cerda, requested that the Toledo School of Translators produce a Castilian version of a Book of Fab...

What do a Jewish philosopher, a Greek fabulist, and a Latin poet have in common? The following story and its moral. The Book of Ecclesia...