Daily Medieval

The greatest impact on European culture was not the Fall of Rome, the mass (forced) adoption of Christianity, the creation of the Holy Roman...

After the final phase of the decades-long war between Genoa and Venice , the man brought in to mediate a permanent truce between the two mar...

The final phase of the decades-long conflict between Genoa and Venice came in 1378 to 1381 when Genoa decided to directly attack Venice inst...

After the most recent events , the pope attempted to stop the conflict between the two, but they would not be dissuaded from their decades-l...

After the Battle of Curzola in 1299, in which Venice lost dozens of ships and thousands of men against Genoa, Venice was subdued for decade...

After the War of Saint Sabas between Genoa and Venice, a generation went by without outright war. In 1291, the Fall of Acre lost the Crusa...

Four times between 1258 and 1381, the rivalry between the maritime republics of Genoa and Venice reached a tipping point that turned into m...

After the Crusades gave it the opportunity to start creating trading posts in the Eastern Mediterranean, the maritime republic of Genoa beg...

We've touched on Genoa and the possible origin of its name  before . Genoa is on the far northwestern coast of Italy, and archaeological...

Yesterday's post mentioned Buscarello de Ghizolfi, a man from Genoa who served a few Mongol leaders as their ambassador to Europe, spea...

Mention "jeans" or "blue jeans" and someone will comment that they were patented in the 1870s by Levis Strauss and Jacob...

After the sack of Genoa by the Fatimids, the city started to recover. One avenue for commercial growth was the Crusades, and the First Crus...

In the 10th century, Genoa was becoming an important port on the Ligurian Coast in far northwest Italy. Their ships were trading with much o...

Actually, when Petrarch referred to Genoa as "la Superba" he meant "the proud one." Genoa, on the northwest coast of th...

After all the political turmoil , Valencia was possessed by James I of Aragon . He forced tens of thousands of Muslims to leave. There were ...

We should probably start by pointing out the misleading nature of the illustration [MS. Ludwig XIV 6, c.1290-1310, from Aragon]. Depictions ...

The much-disputed Crimean Peninsula On the north coast of the Black Sea, a peninsula extends from the southern part of Ukraine. If you l...

The port at Benghazi, where it all began Benghazi has been much in the news lately. As with any part of the Eastern Hemisphere, it has b...

When American actress Grace Kelly married Rainer III of the House of Grimaldi, Prince of Monaco, in April of 1956, the world suddenly notice...