Daily Medieval

Folk in Classical and Medieval times developed many methods for avoiding getting pregnant , but sometimes the inevitable happened. The Bible...

What does hair have to do with piety? Well, monks would get tonsured so that their outward appearance signified their role in society. As me...

Pope Innocent I was an early-5th century Italian pope. The Liber Pontificalis ["Book of Popes"] says he was the son of a man wh...

His feast day is Leap Day, so he's celebrated only every 4 years. He is revered in the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic ...