Daily Medieval

We talked (finally) about the source  of books for the general populace, but medieval bookshops were not like modern ones: you didn't wa...

You see it everywhere, yet we never give it a moment's thought. Almost everything printed uses ink. (There are heat-sensitive labels/rec...

Movable type—the process of using interchangeable parts to create a page rather than carving/casting an entire page—revolutionized the produ...

Historic periods rarely have well-defined dates, unless they can point to a specific event that created definitive change. One can say there...

Poggio's notes on monument  [ link ] Many months ago this post mentioned a time when there were three popes at once, who were final...

John Wycliffe (c.1320-1384) was politically active and a reformer whose brilliance as a theologian was originally admired widely. Eventuall...