Daily Medieval

Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini (18 October 1405 - 14 August 1464) had a very simple origin. He was born to the very large family of a si...

In a surprising turn in 1439, during a time when the papacy was in turmoil and rival popes were almost commonplace, the Council of Basel cho...

Pope Pius II (18 October 1405 - 14 August 1464) was very busy, looking for political alliances and ways to expand his authority. It wasn...

Pius II was the only pope to write an autobiography while he reigned. Lest you think he probably sanitized his life so that it seemed more a...

After a number of different governing bodies (a pun will become clear once you read this ), Siena turned to Gian Galeazzo Visconti to lead ...

Wedding portrait of Isabella and Ferdinand (1469) Everyone knows about Isabella of Castile and how she financed Columbus' excursion ...