Daily Medieval

As Christianity expanded to different regions and with different authorities, philosophical discussions and policies and practices developed...

Gilles, the Baron de Rais (c.1405 - 26 October 1440) was a French leader during the Hundred Years War. In 1429 he was made the Marshal of Fr...

Isabelle Romée (1377 - 1458) grew up in Vouthon-Bas and move to Domrémy when she married Jacques d'Arc , a wealthy farmer who had inheri...

After she was captured by the French Burgundians and handed over to the English, Jeanne d'Arc was taken to Rouen (the center of the En...

Jacques Fournier (c.1285 - 25 April 1342) was born in Foix, a county in the southern part of France. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy at the...

When French historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1929 – 2023) set out to write an account of a typical French medieval village, based on certa...

Was Lollardy popular? Besides for Sir John Oldcastle and John Wycliffe , I mean. Because Lollards believed that baptism and confession wer...

What was Lollardy, and why was it so dangerous or objectionable that Sir John Oldcastle needed to be executed for it in 1414? That Wycliffe...

When Sir John Oldcastle escaped from the Tower of London to avoid execution for the heresy of Lollardy, he fled to Cooling Castle and becam...

Priscillianism was considered heretical partially because its origin was in gnostic beliefs coming from Egypt. Gnosticism, from the Greek γν...

Priscillian (c.340 - 385) was a good enough theologian that he was made Bishop of Ávila Spain in 380, but controversial enough that he had m...

Priscillian was the first person to be excommunicated and  executed (that we know of) because of his "heretical" beliefs. I use th...

Vincent of Lérins lived at a time when there were many different factions preaching different versions of Christianity. No one wanted this c...

The earliest mention of the man who became Pope Celestine I was a reference to "Celestine the Deacon" in a 416 document by Pope In...

One of the more notable Beguines was the French mystic Marguerite Porete. We know little about her life except what was recorded in her tri...

The first thing you'll notice is quotation marks around the "Peter" in the title. That is because Peter was likely not his nam...

The Waldensians are a Christian protestant group that originated in the Middle Ages and still exists, having survived—sometimes through seve...

I believe and confess that omnipotent and unchangeable God foreknew and predestined saint angels and elect men to eternal life gratis and th...

Although Constantine had called the 1st Council of Nicaea to make sure there was an established orthodoxy for Christianity throughout the em...

Although Donatus Magnus ' appeal at the Council of Arles failed, and  he was exiled to Gaul until his death, Donatism did not die out. A...