Daily Medieval

Cimabue (c.1240 - 1302) was an Italian painter and a designer of mosaics . In case you have not yet heard of this man, his name is pronounce...

When Gerard Segarelli was rejected by the Franciscans, he took matters into his own hands and formed the Apostolic Brethren in 1260. The B...

Excerpt from the Taxatio; see the word "Census" upper-right Today is the birthday of  Pope Nicholas IV; you can read a brief ...

The post about Julian the Hospitaller mentioned its source in the Legenda Aurea ["The Golden Legend"] of Jacobus de Voragine. ...

The growing power and importance of Sicily in the Middle Ages was mentioned here . But the solution they found didn't quite last; co...

Yesterday referred to the resignation of Pope Celestine V, and that there was some confusion about it. It was not common for popes to resig...