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,...

In 1194, Richard I of England created a system by which all financial transactions by Jews would be documented by the Crown. This system cre...

In England there are still many "Commons" that are accessible by locals for grazing their animals. Their origin can be summed up...

First page of the Textus Roffensis. The water damage is from the early 1700s. The Textus de Ecclesia Roffensi per Ernulphum episcopum  ...

[ source ] There is an ethnic subdivision of Jews called Sephardic Jews. "Sephardic" comes from the Hebrew  Sepharad , which r...

Control your pig! [ source ] The town of Maldon was mentioned recently as the site of a disastrous (for the Anglo-Saxons) battle. Maldo...

Liuvigild on one of his campaigns detail from an ivory reliquary, 11th c. Liuvigild was mentioned yesterday as the Visigothic King in t...

It was on today's date, 3 March, in 1284 that Wales was incorporated into England via the Statute of Rhuddlan. Wales had been connecte...

Gold coin depicting Clothar II The Edict of Paris, an outline of laws and rights in the kingdom of the Franks, has been called "the...

It is not uncommon for the term "medieval" to be used negatively, to connote an action or opinion that is primitive or uncivilized...