Daily Medieval

The early Church fathers struggled to explain exactly how salvation worked; that is, what was the actual way that Christ's death and res...

Large stone buildings intended to last for centuries, such as examples of Gothic Architecture , would be exposed to ages and ages of rainwat...

The churches mentioned in this blog have been well-known Anglo-Saxon, Norman, or Gothic edifices, but there were numerous small churches in ...

Creating sufficiently high temperatures needed to melt silica and fashion glass was difficult, but at some point we discovered that the addi...

The word "consanguinity" comes from Latin consanguinitas ["blood relation"], and refers to having a close kinship with s...

7th c. Asturian Church of Santa Cristina de Lena, Spain This will be a brief introduction to the styles of medieval architecture that e...

The Shrine of the Three Kings The Three Kings, or Magi, appear suddenly in the Gospel of Matthew and just as quickly disappear. That pa...

St. Stephen I, King of Hungary Today's date is important in the history of medieval Hungary for two separate events decades apart. ...

(photo credit Conor Hogan, 2014) The picture here is medieval, although not from the Middle Ages. It's of the dome of Our Lady of V...

Confidentiality is expected in many relationships: doctor-patient, lawyer-client, ... and priest-penitent. The so-called "Seal of th...

Box that held Richard's heart. The inscription reads: "Here is the heart of Richard, King of England."  Once Richard the ...

Explanation of cross-in-square from this  fascinating site. Today is May Day, and the anniversary of the consecration of the Nea Ekklesi...

Since I've been looking into canon law lately ( here and here ), I thought I would share an interesting facet of Medieval era canon law...

Holy Trinity Church in Barsham, Suffolk The equinox, from Latin aequinoctium (the time of equal days and nights), the day twice each ye...

St. Francis of Assisi The Mendicant Orders were a 13th century movement that stirred up great controversy in the Middle Ages. Called so ...

After the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the Turks, Nicholas of Cusa (c.1400-1464) wrote De pace fidei (On the Peace of Faith), in which...