Daily Medieval

The Emperor Theodosius I (347 - 395) embraced Christianity, so much so that he was ruled by Bishop Ambrose over the Massacre at Thessalonica...

The Germanic tribe the Vandals made their way across Europe, into the Iberian Peninsula, and then to North Africa. There they clashed with ...

The following tale, like much of early history, cannot be confirmed, but it has come down to us as an actual event with actual consequences....

Although Constantine had called the 1st Council of Nicaea to make sure there was an established orthodoxy for Christianity throughout the em...

Yesterday's post on St. Illide mentioned that he cured the daughter of Roman Emperor Magnus Maximus. Although Maximus was Emperor of We...

Diagram of an eclipse from a modern translation of Hipparchus It is not always easy to figure out dates from classical or medieval writi...