Daily Medieval

After Dionysius Exiguus used the phrase anno Domini  to describe the year (525) in which he was writing a table of dates for Easter, the co...

When Pope John I in 525 asked Dionysius Exiguus to write a chronology to tabulate future dates of Easter, Dionysius looked at how years wer...

We learned a lot about St. Pachomius and his development of the Eastern Coptic Christian monasteries from a biography written over a hundre...