Daily Medieval

King Cnut of England and Denmark saw a chance to expand his rule to more of Scandinavia. King Olaf II Haraldsson of Norway had hassled Denma...

While Bishop Adhemar was traveling through Slavonia with the First Crusade , he was accosted by a group of Pechenegs. They were described i...

The largest ethnic and linguistic group of peoples in Europe in the first millennium CE was the Slavs of the Kievan Rus . Although they chie...

Primogeniture is actually a "generic" term for different systems of inheritance. The desire by human beings to create a system tha...

Grand Prince of Kiev Vladimir the Great (958 - 1015) expanded the territory for the Kievan Rus. He cared about his reputation, showing his ...

Although his grandmother, the cruel and vicious Olga , is considered by some to be the reason the Kievan Rus became Christian, Vladimir the ...

Vladimir the Great (also Vladimir I, also St. Vladimir/Volodymyr) was Grand Prince of Kyiv and ruler of Kievan Rus from 980 to 1015. He was ...

The Varangian Guard  were personal bodyguards for Byzantine emperors from the 10th to 14th centuries. The guards were primarily hired from N...

Among the groups in history that have long since disappeared, there are the Pechenegs. They were a semi-nomadic group that spoke a Turkic l...