Daily Medieval

Margaret of Wessex was almost 50 years old in 1093 when her husband, King Malcolm III of Scotland, and her eldest son went to war against t...

In the 1930s, two Benedictine abbeys were formed from the original in Eichstätt, Bavaria. One was in Thanet, where the nuns of Eichstätt bou...

The mother of Saint Mildred was Domne Eafe—also Domneva, or Lady Eva—a great-granddaughter of King Æthelbert of Kent. She married King Mere...

When Peter of Blois ' old law professor, Baldwin of Forde (pictured here outside of Canterbury Cathedral), became Archbishop of Canterbu...

William I, Duke of Aquitaine, founded Cluny Abbey in 910. Built in the Romanesque style, it had a basilica that was the largest in the world...

When St. Benedict decided to create a place where men could quietly contemplate God, removed from the cares of the world, he chose a 1700-f...

You would think that the name "Battle" for a religious house must be an abbreviation of some more appropriate term, and you would ...

Hautvillers is a commune in northeastern France. In 650 the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter (in French it was the Abbaye Saint-Pierre d'...

I suppose if we wanted to find a Christian parallel to Maimonides, Thomas Aquinas would be an obvious choice. Born into the aristocracy, not...

The previous post discussed some aspects of Celtic Christianity found in the British Isles that differed from the "mainstream" ...

...and of mathematicians, and opticians, and metalworkers, and more. Saint Hubertus' conversion from materialism to piety was first...

There were many reasons why someone would become a pirate, I suppose. It was probably rare that a monk would do so, however. Eustace Bu...

We saw here how Charlemagne captured his ex-father-in-law, King Desiderius of the Lombards, and imprisoned him in the Benedictine Abbey of...

One example of the "white mantle of churches" So...the Venerable Bede suggests that time be reckoned since the year of Christ...

You would think that being named pope is the highest achievement for a man in that particular field, and that it comes with the power to ...

The defeat of Eustace the Black at the Battle of Sandwich, from Matthew Paris Eustace Busket was born about 1170 near Boulogne on the n...

The early history of the founding of religious buildings goes hand-in-hand with visions and miracles, such as the August snowfall in Rome ...

Benedict holding his Rule; you can see the raven that saved him from poisoned bread. In the discussion of time I mentioned Benedict of ...

Panel from Bayeaux Tapestry; Edward's body carried to Westminster. The Collegiate Church of St. Peter at Westminster was begun on ...

Romsey Abbey was, for a brief time, the home of Matilda of Scotland and her sister Mary. It is called "Romsey" because it was or...