Daily Medieval

Bread was so important to daily life, as food and even as tableware . Not every household had the time and resources to make its own bread,...

We've talked about bread before, way back here and more recently here , but now I want to discuss a very specific use for bread: the tr...

We have previously mentioned the dinar   here and here . Usually of gold, it was used alongside the dirham , usually of silver and of a les...

We cannot underestimate the ubiquity of grain in the medieval diet. This was, of course, not a medieval discovery: different grains had been...

Whan Adam delf, and Eve span, Wo was thanne a gentilman? This was part of a sermon allegedly delivered in Blackheath the night before that g...

A modern Aleconner [ link ] We know that, in medieval London, an alderman held an assembly  called a Wardmote every other year, at whi...

Bread has all the characteristics of a staple food: the plant is easy to grow, the product is relatively easy and cheap to produce, and it ...