Daily Medieval

Mosaic art—arranging pieces of stone, glass (called  tesserae ), or other material to make shapes and pictures—has existed since the 3rd mil...

In the 2nd circle of Hell in Dante's Inferno , Dante and Virgil see two lovers, Paolo and Francesca, condemned for lust (see the illust...

The idea of actual Papal States  giving the pope serious temporal power really took off in 756 when Pepin the Short , king of the Franks, ga...

Tertullian in 220 CE wrote De Pallio  ("Concerning the Pallium"), in which he talks about clothing fashion in different countries....

Gebhard, the Count of Calw, was born about 1018 into an illustrious family. Holy Roman Emperor Henry III (1017 - 1056) recognized him as ...

Charlemagne put serious effort into making his reign reminiscent of the grandeur that was the Roman Empire. He gathered scholars and arti...