Daily Medieval

The 12th century saw a burgeoning of literature by figures whose names we actually know, like Marie de France and Chrétien de Troyes (menti...

Marie de France's collection of 102 fables written in the late 12th century mostly come from Aesop and Avianus, but there are a few she ...

People love fables. Brief stories that offer a lesson or moral can be instructive as well as fun. A Castilian version of Arabic fables was m...

Marie de France (c.1160 - 1215) is called that because of one line from her writing: "Marie ai num, si sui de France." It means &q...

Just as there is a difference between the medieval werewolf and the modern, in medieval literature we can see distinctions between types of ...