Daily Medieval

According to tradition, the apostles Bartholomew and Jude Thaddeus (the double name was to distinguish him from Judas Iscariot and from stor...

The  Opus Caroli regis contra synodum  ("The work of King Charles against the Synod"), also known as  Libri Carolini  ("Charl...

Although Constantine had called the 1st Council of Nicaea to make sure there was an established orthodoxy for Christianity throughout the em...

Easter is the "floatiest" of floating holidays in the Western calendar. The 7th century saw a very serious debate over how the da...

We have talked about the Council of Nicaea before, but always the First Council in 325. There were several ecumenical councils. The seventh...

This blog has touched on the debate over the date of Easter in the past, but the truth is that the early Church went through different phase...

15th century woodcut of Nicholas In the introduction to Arian Christianity I mentioned how discussion at the Council of Nicaea in 325 b...

What makes a pope into an antipope? In 355, the Roman Emperor Constantius II (317-361) wasn't happy with the pope. Constantius was an ...

Iota, the smallest thing in the Greek alphabet, with the reputation for being ... the smallest thing. Even people who don't know a b...

In the theological free-for-all of the first few centuries after Jesus of Nazareth, different theories as to the nature of God and the divin...