Daily Medieval

Fulda is a town in Hesse, Germany. In 744 CE, a disciple of St. Boniface named St. Sturm built a monastery there, intended to be the largest...

Walafrid Strabo (c.808 - 849) was born in Swabia to a poor family. He studied under Hrabanus Maurus , and became a monk. He entered the c...

Tiffany window of Charlemagne and Alcuin at LaFayette College (1898) Alcuin of York has been mentioned before, primarily in his relat...

Higden's map, with Eden (and East) at the top Medieval mapmakers , if they wanted to be thorough, of course had to account for t...

"Grammar" comes from the Greek gramma , meaning "letter of the alphabet" or "thing written." Their word gramma...

A lunar eclipse was recorded for July 1 in 828 very early in the morning. A second one occurred on Christmas Day, and was recorded thusly in...