Daily Medieval

Recent posts have mentioned three of William of Normandy's sons who had claims (some of them realized) to the throne of England. The Con...

The creator of the world's first joke book was connected to many serious books as well. Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini, later just P...

Like many well-known theologians/priests in the Middle Ages, Bernard of Clairvaux was born to a wealthy family. This was in Burgundy in 1090...

I once mentioned how the end of the Carolingian Empire and the loss of its centralized administrative system made it difficult to mail a let...

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 established the Rule of St. Benedict for the proper functioning and practices of monastic life, he could not have anticip...

American author Henry James took a six-week tour of France in 1883, in which he mentions the "chatty nun" who guided him through M...

Æthelwold was born about 910CE to a wealthy Winchester family. He served at the court of King Æthelstan (reigned 924-939), learning as much ...