Daily Medieval

Folk in Classical and Medieval times developed many methods for avoiding getting pregnant , but sometimes the inevitable happened. The Bible...

Yesterday we talked about medieval parents having large families. Today we're going to talk about preventing large families. Although Ca...

Until fairly recently there was an idea that "childhood" as we think of it today did not exist in the Middle Ages. You can see thi...

Ramon Llull was a 13th century Catalan mystic and theologian whose controversial writings made him many enemies. One of his more interestin...

Since "infant formula" was not invented until the 20th century, breastfeeding was the standard way to get nourishment into a baby....

This is the story of Philip of Courtenay (1243 - 15 December 1283). He was one of the Latin Emperors of Constantinople—the empire was establ...