Daily Medieval

Innocent IV (born Sinibaldo Fieschi) had a busy decade. He lived longer than that, of course, and was consequential, but there is a lot of u...

Fastitocalon is the name given to a sea creature in an Old English poem called "The Whale." This time I will with poetic art rehea...

The rounding up and burning of the Talmud and other important Jewish works, and the Disputation of Paris, in France in the early 1240s were ...

The Disputation of Paris, a debate between four rabbis and a Jew-turned-Franciscan, began on 12 June 1240. There were 35 charges against the...

Although Pope Gregory IX felt it his duty to protect the Jews , he had issues with their Talmud, the collection of Jewish laws and practice...

The Talmud [late Hebrew talmūd , "instruction"] is the body of Jewish civil and ceremonial law. It includes the Mishnah (exegeti...