Daily Medieval

In 600 CE, the Patriarch of Jerusalem Sophronius visited the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a 4th-century church in Jerusalem supposedly bui...

Seeking aid against the fear of a complete Ottoman takeover of the Byzantine Empire (currently a vassal state under Turkish Emperor Bayezid...

Manuel II Paleologos was the son of the beleaguered John V Paleologos . At that point in time, the Byzantine Empire was a vassal state of th...

One of the oldest monasteries in the Peloponnese, the Agia Lavra  (Greek: literally "Holy Monastery") was built in 961. It is on C...