Daily Medieval

...Onager, Mangonel, Springald, Polybolos—all words for devices that propelled heavy objects toward an enemy; not to mention Cheiroballista...

The Ulugh Beg Observatory Museum, built in 1970 Ulugh Beg is the more familiar name of Mīrzā Muhammad Tāraghay bin Shāhrukh (22 March 1...

Naalbinding technique [ link ] Technically, today's post is not about knitting, but about an earlier technique with a similar resul...

In the Book of Proverbs, we find "Like a snow-cooled drink at harvest time is a trustworthy messenger to the one who sends him; he r...

The Abbasid Caliphate has only been mentioned so far as a target of the Assassins , but deserves more attention. Descended from Muhammad&...

A diagram of the heavy plough with mouldboard One of the tools that most shaped European culture and improved life in the Middle Ages wa...

Detail of the Venetian Arsenal from the Civitates Orbis Terrarum [1572] When we think of Venice and boats, we think of gondolas being...

Bronze-Iron Age buttons as ornament. [ source ] Although evidence of buttons exists as far back as the classical era, it appears that th...