Daily Medieval

When Byzantine Patriarch Michael I Cerularius made known to Pope Leo IX  what he considered erroneous practices on the part of the Roman Chu...

Others may dispute it, but I call Nicholas V the Last Medieval Pope because he saw the Fall of Constantinople to the Turks and the end of th...

Lorenzo Valla (c.1407 - 1457) was a scholar and Catholic priest. Like Poggio Bracciolini , he was interested in old manuscripts. His father ...

I've offered my own idea of when the Middle Ages ended , but of course there are other ways to look at it. I suggested specific events t...

Lorenzo Valla was born about 1407 in Rome. His father was a lawyer for the pope. Lorenzo studied under Leonardo Bruni (sometimes called the ...

The Donatio Constantini (Latin: "Donation of Constantine") was a document in which the converted Emperor Constantine, whose Edict...