Daily Medieval

One of the earliest discovered (so far) forgeries was the 9th-century Pseudo-Isidorean Decretals. A decretal is a papal decree concerning a ...

In Parts One and Two we get the feeling that forgeries were quite common, and used to "alter history" to the benefit of an insti...

Yesterday's post started the discussion of forgeries and mentioned the Abbey of Saint-Denis. Forging documents was an attempt to re-cre...

Everything written is written for a reason. That reason could be to persuade, to entertain, to outrage—authors always have a purpose. Someti...

Yesterday I teased information about Prester John. I wrote about him long ago ( here and here ), and he got mentioned in other contexts (mo...