Daily Medieval

Actually, when Petrarch referred to Genoa as "la Superba" he meant "the proud one." Genoa, on the northwest coast of th...

Odoacer was a Germanic soldier who overthrew the Western Roman Emperor Romulus Augustus (who was only a pre-teen) and declared himself King ...

After Theodoric  (454 - 526) was made commander of the Eastern Roman Empire's forces by Emperor Zeno, you might have thought that his fu...

To be fair, I have mentioned one  Ostrogoth before: King Theodoric was talked about here and here . The larger culture of the Goths has be...