Daily Medieval

Odilo of Cluny (c.962 - 1049) wrote a life of Holy Roman Empress Adelaide of Italy (to whom he was supposedly related). It is from Odilo th...

Yesterday I mentioned the need to explain Adelaide of Italy to understand how she affected the marriage of her son. Adelaide was born to Kin...

When Liudprand of Cremona went to Constantinople a second time, it was specifically to arrange a marriage between the son of Holy Roman Emp...

We are grateful that some people in the past chose to record what they saw and heard, or what they were told by others. Surviving histories ...

Henry being offered the position of King of Germany, while working with his nets. (1900, Hermann Vogel) Richard Wagner's opera, Lo...