Daily Medieval

In 1095 CE, Gaston of Valloire (or of Dauphiné) founded a religious order, sanctioned by Pope Urban II (who also called for the First Crusad...

Piers Gaveston , close friend and favorite of King Edward II , was exiled from England three times: once by Edward's father and twice by...

Ramon Llull's system of philosophy was officially condemned by an Inquisitor General of the Roman Catholic Church, Nicholas Eymerich, a ...

Catherine of Siena is an example of how one can be connected to a religious order and still influence events "in the world." She w...

A 1987 film, Le Moine et la sorcière (released in the USA as The Sorceress ), tells the story of a Dominican Friar, Etienne de Bourbon, in ...

I suppose if we wanted to find a Christian parallel to Maimonides, Thomas Aquinas would be an obvious choice. Born into the aristocracy, not...

First, let's talk about the name. He was born Moses ben Nachman. He sometimes called himself Ramban , an acronym for Rabbi Moses ben Nac...

Saint Albert of Jerusalem was born Albert Avogadro in 1149 in Italy. He became one of the Canons Regular (Dominicans) after studying theo...

The Dominicans have been mentioned many times, and their founder has been mentioned as a friend of Simon de Montfort, but his life deser...

Plaque on the site of Montfort's death Simon de Montfort has been mentioned before, opposing Henry III , but that was the 6th Earl ...

Tomb of Margareta, at the Monastery Church of Mary Medingen To wrap up a week of religion and mysticism, we turn to Margareta Ebner, a ...

From the Church of St. Sebald in Nuremberg; Christina Ebner stands to the side of the Virgin and Child Christina Ebner was born on Goo...

The post about Julian the Hospitaller mentioned its source in the Legenda Aurea ["The Golden Legend"] of Jacobus de Voragine. ...

The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 was mentioned last year over a five-day span , but the events in London weren't the only expression of ...

Since the last two days have been about reconciling opposing views, and since today is the anniversary of the death of Albertus Magnus, it ...

The name "Hedwig" is now familiar to millions as the name of Harry Potter's owl, but it has a long history that predates its u...