Daily Medieval

One of the complaints about King Edward II of England by his barons was that he took the wrong people into his confidence and acted on thei...

William of Newburgh tells the story of a bishop whose actions were contrary to what was expected by a man of God. More recent research offer...

Desiring with an ardent desire to liberate the Holy Land from the hands of the ungodly, we decree with the advice of prudent men who are ful...

There were many reasons why someone would become a pirate, I suppose. It was probably rare that a monk would do so, however. Eustace Bu...

Piracy on the seven seas goes back a long way. Think of fairly small ships roughing it on the open sea with little defense, not the row...

Medieval wives were not always the stay-at-home type, and some of them acted in ways that were far from the mold of what we think of as a...