Daily Medieval

Dick Whittington 's cat might have made his reputation according to the legend , but cats were not always a welcome sight in the Middle ...

Marginalia—comments, doodles, annotations, etc., made in the margin of a manuscript or book—came in many forms. Here we talked about the at...

Marginalia are marks or notations or illustrations drawn into (obviously) the margin of a document. They have another name: apostils , from ...