Daily Medieval

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 Oswy (also Oswiu 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 ...