Daily Medieval

It seems obvious to Westerners that the new year should start on the first of January, which we then named New Year's Day. This is fairl...

[ Notate bene : this post is based on one that originally appeared on 30 June 2012. ] Pope Paul III, as played by Peter O'Toole in ...

Tying the start of a year to the season of spring makes perfect sense in agrarian cultures. The Romans started their year in spring for a lo...

Since today will have one extra second added to it, I thought it would be a good time to talk about calendar corrections in history. We'...