Daily Medieval

Yesterday mentioned the gold and silver cramp rings used in the Middle Ages in England to avoid cramps and epilepsy. (The sample here—alas!...

John of Garland (c.1180 - c.[at least] 1252) was an English grammarian and poet. (He wrote a poem about a recording demon .) Despite his Eng...

De Gradibus  (Latin: Concerning degrees) was written by the Father of Arab Philosophy, Al-Kindi (801-873CE). In it, he applies mathematics t...

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...

Image from Adelard's translation of Euclid's Elements of Geometry Being inquisitive is the first step to learning.* In the early...

One of the decrees that came out of the Fourth Lateran Council of Pope Innocent III was that "every cathedral or other church of suffi...

Daily Medieval has frequently mentioned the importance of Arabic texts in the transmission of knowledge to Western Europe. Arabic, however...

Among the accomplishments of Hermann of Reichenau , he also provides us with the set of rules for one of Europe's oldest board games, ...

The formation of a rainbow is a complex matter, inspiring both wonder and curiosity. How they come about took a great deal of time, speculat...

In honor of Independence Day in the USA... Everyone knows that to discuss the history of fireworks means talking about China and Marco Pol...