Daily Medieval

Why were two of the compounds for legal training in London named "Inner Temple" and "Middle Temple"? First, let's ex...

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...

Since we brought up Canterbury yesterday, and arguably its most famous archbishop, let us take a look at his predecessor, who was very much...

Let's sum up: when the White Ship sank , taking the heir of King Henry I with it, he finally settled on Empress Matilda (Henry's ...

Henry, the young king. For a time, the Capetian Dynasty in France had the habit of naming and actually crowning the king's heir in t...

One of the men who went on the Third Crusade (talked about here and here ), wrote accounts of some of the events of that adventure, notably...

The Second Crusade (1145-49) had put a great deal of the Holy Land under European rule, but Saladin (Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub, 1138-1193...