Daily Medieval

Peter of Montboissier was born to a woman who was called "Blessed Raingarde" (she was revered as saintly but not formally canonize...

King Alfonso X's son, Fernando de la Cerda, requested that the Toledo School of Translators produce a Castilian version of a Book of Fab...

The previous post refers to John of Seville being the chief translator from Arabic into Castilian; this is an important linguistic distincti...

In the beginning of the 12th century, European science lagged behind Arabic scholarship, in many ways because early Greek texts had not made...