Daily Medieval

King Louis VII of France had a problem. His clever and wealthy wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine , was really getting on his nerves. On the Second ...

King Louis VI of France (1120 - 1180) had several children with his second wife, Adélaide of Maurienne. Their eldest, Philip (1116 - 1131) w...

After the lives of  Peter Abelard  and  Heloise d'Argenteuil  took a  catastrophic turn , they both entered cloistered settings. Abelard...

Like many well-known theologians/priests in the Middle Ages, Bernard of Clairvaux was born to a wealthy family. This was in Burgundy in 1090...

The art of coloring glass was evident in articles from ancient Egypt and Classical Rome. "Stained glass" can mean any  glass that ...

I have mentioned St.-Denis in Paris as the first church in the Gothic style. That project was a re -building of an earlier church—a churc...

Abbot Suger in stained glass Back here , I discussed Gothic architecture, but there was no time to mention its birthplace, the Abbey Chu...