Daily Medieval

The Earthquake Synod was held on 21 May 1382 in London, England. It was called by Archbishop of Canterbury William Courtenay to address 24 o...

After getting in trouble for his writings and being told officially not to discuss the points he raised, John Wycliffe decided he would rai...

The Middle English Bible translated from the Vulgate (supposedly by John Wycliffe ) wasn't in itself controversial. But Wycliffe wrote ...

John Wycliffe (c.1324-1384) was one of my very earliest posts (before I started to include illustrations because they were boring). My post ...

Was Lollardy popular? Besides for Sir John Oldcastle and John Wycliffe , I mean. Because Lollards believed that baptism and confession wer...

What was Lollardy, and why was it so dangerous or objectionable that Sir John Oldcastle needed to be executed for it in 1414? That Wycliffe...

Thinking of King Henry V of England often brings to mind the play by Shakespeare and the characters within. Shakespeare probably learned ab...

In 1401, during the reign of King Henry IV of England, Parliament passed a law known by the phrase, De heretic comburendo ["Regardin...

William Thorpe before Arundel, 1407; a case of heresy Yesterday's post discussed Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury, and sugg...

Thomas Arundel, Lambeth Palace Collection Let us talk about the "Worst Briton" of the 15th century, according to a 2005 poll o...

The Council of Constance (illustrated here) in 1414 has been mentioned before—or, at least, its outcomes. It was at this, the 16th ecumenica...

King Edward and his knights counting their dead after the Battle of Crécy, Hundred Years War Sir Richard Stury (c.1330-1395) was a membe...

[ In memoriam : William Shaw, 1917 - 2012] Have modern funerary practices always been in place? Were there different methods (and reasons...

Robert Grosseteste (c.1170-1253) has been mentioned in several posts . His early life, beyond having been born into humble beginnings in Sto...

A collection of notes related to the date and to this blog*: St. Francis was first mentioned here , then the phenomenon of his stigmata h...

After Jan Hus was executed for heresy in 1415 (Jan Hus has been discussed here and here ), his followers, called Hussites, continued to pro...

My research (or just day-to-day life) sometimes bring me details that I wish I'd known when I wrote a certain blog post, or that I thi...

Jan Hus (1369-6 July, 1415) was a pious child whose manners and performance while singing and serving in church in Prague distinguished him....

John Wycliffe (c.1320-1384) was politically active and a reformer whose brilliance as a theologian was originally admired widely. Eventuall...

John Wycliffe (c.1324-1384), first discussed yesterday , started his career as a respectable Oxford scholar and theologian. His religion and...