medieval history

The Freising Manuscripts: The Oldest Slavic Latin Texts

Dating back to roughly 1000 AD, the Freising Manuscripts (Brižinski spomeniki) hold the title of the oldest surviving texts in…

7 days ago

Macaronic Verse: Medieval Bilingual Humor

Long before Spanglish or modern code-switching, medieval monks and rebellious scholars created "Macaronic Verse"—a comedy genre that mixed high-status Latin…

1 week ago

The Curious Case of the Green Children of Woolpit

In the annals of history, there are tales so strange that they seem more like fiction than fact. One such…

2 years ago

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