Daily Medieval

John VIII was a Roman who, as a young man, witnessed the 846 CE raid against Rome by Muslims. According to the Liber Pontificalis  ("Bo...

A 9th-century Arab dynasty almost ended the city of Dubrovnik in its infancy. At the time, it was called Ragusa, founded about 615CE by refu...

That is an odd headline (and topic) for a blog on the Middle Ages, but let's push on and see where we wind up. The Laffer Curve (named f...

Along the Mediterranean coast of Northern Africa was an area controlled by the Roman Empire called the Africa Proconsularis. When the Empire...

One of the medical texts composed by Isaac Israeli ben Solomon was translated from Arabic to Latin and called De Urinis  ("Concerning U...

Some of the works translated at Toledo by our old friend Gerard of Cremona were the Book of Definitions  and the Book of Elements  into Lat...