Daily Medieval

Arius was not the only early writer whose ideas were superseded by other theologians, making him a heretic. One of the next great disruptio...

William of Champeaux (c.1070-1122) was a student of Anselm of Laon , and may have helped to compile the Glossa interlinearis . He may also h...

Anselm of Laon (d.15 July 1117) studied under one of the great names of the day, St. Anselm of Bec, whom I teased about here . He became a m...

In June 2005, at a conference in Toronto on "Anomalous Eras - Best Evidence: Best Theory," Heribert Illig presented a paper he cal...

Charlemagne put serious effort into making his reign reminiscent of the grandeur that was the Roman Empire. He gathered scholars and arti...

Iota, the smallest thing in the Greek alphabet, with the reputation for being ... the smallest thing. Even people who don't know a b...

[This is Part 4; the other 3 parts address Gothic Culture & History, Gothic Architecture, and the Gothic Revival.] The Gothic Revival ...

[This is Part 3; the other 3 parts address Gothic Culture & History, Gothic Architecture, and Fiction.] Augustus W. Pugin In 1740,...

[This is Part 2; the other 3 parts address Gothic Culture & History, the Gothic Revival, and Fiction.] Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574), art...

In the theological free-for-all of the first few centuries after Jesus of Nazareth, different theories as to the nature of God and the divin...

[This is Part 1; the other 3 parts address Gothic Architecture, the Gothic Revival, and Fiction.] From the Middle Ages until 1974, the Kin...

Today is the feast day of Augustine of Hippo (354-28 August 430). He was born into a noble family in Thagaste, in what is now Algeria. We kn...

With the world of technology enjoying heated debate over the Apple vs. Samsung patent ruling, I thought it would be interesting to look at t...

Current robes, Mayor of London. Henry le Waleis (?-c.1302) was a prominent citizen of London who served as alderman in two different war...

Even fans of the Middle Ages probably would never think to pair the phrase "economic theory" with the adjective "medieval....

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

Nowadays, when the word "traitor" is used casually to refer to someone who has decided he likes "Hunger Games" better th...

We have so often heard the phrase "hanged, drawn and quartered" that we probably don't think about the details--or perhaps we...

The Fibonacci series, mentioned here , has been found to correlate to patterns found in nature. There is no evidence that Fibonacci himsel...

The symbol shown here is used for the modern wireless communications protocol called "Bluetooth," created by the telcommunicatio...

Frederick II of Sicily (1194-1250) has crossed the path of this blog more than once, but has not yet been featured. He declared the Edict ...

After mentioning Fibonacci 's work, the Liber Abacus , it occurred to me that the place of the abacus in history deserved a little atten...

While the foundation of the Tower of Pisa was being being laid, a man was born nearby who developed math skills that might have helped the i...