Daily Medieval

Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum ("History of the Church of the English People") lists Wilfrid as one of the men...

If, of the members of the Benedictine Confederation, the Camaldolese Congregation was founded in 980, and the Vallombrosians in 1036, how ca...

Start typing the word "venerable" into a search engine on the Internet and one of the options offered will be "venerable Bede...

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

St. Adrian of Canterbury Yesterday's post on the Leiden Glossary mentioned its two chief contributors, Adrian of Canterbury and The...

King Oswiu (also Oswy or Oswig), who was a friend of Benedict Biscop , ruled Bernicia, a small section of Northumberland between what is n...

The cleric and writer called the Venerable Bede has cropped up many times here; his learning is known to us by his translation of parts of ...