Daily Medieval

Once Margery Kempe decided to dedicate her life fully to religious devotion, she decided a pilgrimage to the Holy Land was in order, inspir...

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...

When Sir John Oldcastle escaped from the Tower of London to avoid execution for the heresy of Lollardy, he fled to Cooling Castle and becam...

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...

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...

The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 The statutes that attempted to restrict the peasant workforce to pre-Plague levels of wages, etc., did no...