Daily Medieval

We left off with Manfred of Sicily killed during battle  (illustration) with the forces of Charles of Anjou  in 1265. Charles had been named...

Events were in place for Charles of Anjou , Count of Provence, to take over Sicily . His brother, King Louis IX of France, was behind him, a...

After James I of Aragon's first wife was annulled and second wife died , it seems he did not seek a third marriage. He had been, howeve...

Jean de Mailly was a Dominican chronicler working in Metz in northeast France in the middle of the 13th century. He wrote a history of the D...

Roger Bacon was born about 1219 into a wealthy family in England. He attended classes at Oxford University, where he learned a love of scien...

First, let's talk about the name. He was born Moses ben Nachman. He sometimes called himself Ramban , an acronym for Rabbi Moses ben Nac...