Daily Medieval

The attempt to limit contact with Jews in public and keep their public authority diminished forced them to wind up being more crucial than e...

Continuing our look at the final four Canons of the proceedings of the 1215 Fourth Lateran Council , we come to Canon 68, which wanted to ma...

Today we look specifically at the institutional racism against Jews established by Pope Innocent III in the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215...

Modern ideas of race and racism are largely based on skin color, but the Middle Ages saw many other factors. To quote ( again ) Regino of Pr...

Pope Gregory VII (c.1015 - 1085) tried to establish many reforms in the Church, they did not all "stick." One of his reforms was t...

The Fourth Lateran Council called in 1215 by Pope Innocent III had three chief objectives: Church reform, freeing the Holy Land, and elimi...

The Fourth Lateran Council called in 1215 by Pope Innocent III had three chief objectives: Church reform, freeing the Holy Land, and elimi...

The Fourth Lateran Council called in 1215 by Pope Innocent III had three chief objectives: Church reform, freeing the Holy Land, and elimi...

After years of being pope and asserting his will on the world, Innocent III decided to bring together all the church leaders and establish ...

I'm going to start with a quotation from a website about transubstantiation and Paul to the Corinthians: Evidently Paul believed that th...

Peter of Bruys is known to us because of the writings of two of his enemies. He was born in southeastern France and became a Roman Catholic ...

Trial by Ordeal took many forms in the ancient world and the Middle Ages. In a sense, it was an appeal to God to reveal the culprit. In Old ...

One piece of evidence that supported the idea of Spontaneous Generation in the Middle Ages was the case of the barnacle goose. (See the thi...

King Henry III's Statute of Jewry demanded (among other things) that Jews wear a badge conspicuously on their clothing. This was not a ...

The Waldensians are a Christian protestant group that originated in the Middle Ages and still exists, having survived—sometimes through seve...

Were the Crusades successful? If the objective as stated was to put Jerusalem under Christian rule and maintain  that rule, then the Crusade...

Desiring with an ardent desire to liberate the Holy Land from the hands of the ungodly, we decree with the advice of prudent men who are ful...

The Roman Catholic Church of the Middle Ages did not invent persecution of the Jews, but it worked hard to perfect it. The final four of the...

The word "consanguinity" comes from Latin consanguinitas ["blood relation"], and refers to having a close kinship with s...

Debate during the 4th Lateran Council Despite Peter Lombard's Sententiæ  making the case for marriage not needing an officiant or consum...