Daily Medieval

The Spanish Inquisition had more concerns about converts than the regular Roman Inquisition , because the Iberian Peninsula had a larger pe...

While the Roman Catholic Church established the Inquisition in the 12th century to root out heresy, etc., some countries felt the need to c...

As Christianity expanded to different regions and with different authorities, philosophical discussions and policies and practices developed...

I've touched on the Malleus Maleficarum  ("Hammer of Witches") briefly before . It was written by a Dominican who was frustrat...

On 5 December 1484, Pope Innocent VIII issued a papal bull concerning witchcraft. Bulls are known by their opening lines, and so this one ...

When French historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1929 – 2023) set out to write an account of a typical French medieval village, based on certa...

The picture is misleading, I'm afraid, because the subject of today's post died a natural death, but it is certain that there were p...

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

Lorenzo Valla was born about 1407 in Rome. His father was a lawyer for the pope. Lorenzo studied under Leonardo Bruni (sometimes called the ...

One of the more notable Beguines was the French mystic Marguerite Porete. We know little about her life except what was recorded in her tri...

The Cathars, mentioned yesterday, were a largely peaceful group that attempted to lead lives of Christian simplicity, rejecting the materia...

The Talmud [late Hebrew talmūd , "instruction"] is the body of Jewish civil and ceremonial law. It includes the Mishnah (exegeti...

St. Joseph of Cupertino levitating In the United States these days (and probably elsewhere in the world), the name Cupertino evokes the...