Daily Medieval

After the past few entries concerning the anti-Jewish Canons of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215, we come finally to Canon 70, dealing wi...

The attempt to limit contact with Jews in public and keep their public authority diminished forced them to wind up being more crucial than e...

Continuing our look at the final four Canons of the proceedings of the 1215 Fourth Lateran Council , we come to Canon 68, which wanted to ma...

Today we look specifically at the institutional racism against Jews established by Pope Innocent III in the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215...

Modern ideas of race and racism are largely based on skin color, but the Middle Ages saw many other factors. To quote ( again ) Regino of Pr...

Not everyone believed that race and ethnicity were purely a result of being descended from the sons of Noah. Some felt the natural world/en...

What did medieval people think about different races? How did they distinguish one ethnic group from another? This question occurred to me w...