Daily Medieval

There is a question about Ursus arctos  in England, the brown bear that was most common in that part of the world: when did it disappear? Th...

The Protestant Reformation in the 1500s undermined the authority of and people's faith in the pope and the Catholic Church. This was a b...

17th century knife and fork There is a point in the movie Becket (taken from the play of the same name by Jean Anouilh) that introdu...

...is a big topic these days. Today, in fact, Scotland is voting whether to stay in the United Kingdom or strike out on its own. If it did,...

Cannabis sativa from the 6th-century De Materia Medica of Dioscorides I was contemplating a post about Easter, which takes place this Su...

The Inquisition in Portigal [ source ] When the Alhambra Decree gave Jews the choice of converting to Christianity or leaving the kingd...

Fair Rosamund's Well today. Blenheim Palace is of fairly recent vintage—the early 1700s is "recent" in the context of a bl...

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

The early history of the founding of religious buildings goes hand-in-hand with visions and miracles, such as the August snowfall in Rome ...

Romsey Abbey was, for a brief time, the home of Matilda of Scotland and her sister Mary. It is called "Romsey" because it was or...

The desirable treasure of wisdom and science, which all men desire by an instinct of nature, infinitely surpasses all the riches of the wor...

Holy Trinity Church in Barsham, Suffolk The equinox, from Latin aequinoctium (the time of equal days and nights), the day twice each ye...

Machiavelli's Il Principe (c.1513) was far from innovative. Writers since classical times had produced works that explained the proper ...