Daily Medieval

Many years ago, I posted how Clovis I (c.466 - 511) was the first king of the Franks to be converted to Christianity, influenced by his Chri...

...are the hands of a healer." This line from The Lord of the Rings  sounds fantastical, but as a first-rate historian and medievalist,...

Gregory of Tours mentions, regarding an event in which the body of King Clovis I was exhumed, "Though I did not know who he was, I reco...

Clotilde is considered a saint by both the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. She was an early supporter of St. Geneviève , she b...

Childebert was the third of the four sons of Clovis I , who united all the Frankish tribes in Gaul for the first time, and then had it divid...

St. Geneviève was born a peasant in Nanterre around 419/22 CE. One day, while St. Germanus was passing through Nanterre, she told him she wa...

Boethius (left, with numbers from India) debating Pythagoras (right, with an abacus) while Arithmetic looks on Boethius has been mentio...

A 17th century depiction of Chelles Abbey The 7th century saw a great trend in France and Britain of women entering religious houses. O...

This is the 500th post on the Daily Medieval blog. In its honor, let us look at the year 500 CE and how it overlaps some of the previous ...

What do you do when a dynasty seems to become useless? You name them Le Rois fainéants (The do-nothing Kings). The Merovingians are the...

Chilperic I speaking to Bishop Gregory Georgius Florentius (539-593) was born into a distinguished Gallo-Roman family in Arverni in s...

In the history of medieval Christianity, there are stories of entire countries converting all at once. The tale of St. Rémy (c.437-533) is o...