Daily Medieval

When Æthelwold was made Bishop of Winchester in 963, the discipline of the priests there had suffered. Records say that priests there did n...

Yesterday's post told the story of Wayland Smith as told in the Völundarkviða . I mentioned the plight in which he left Böðvildr, the d...

Many of you already know about the Norman Invasion of 1066 when William the Conqueror became ruler of England and the Anglo-Saxons within. T...

There's an episode of The West Wing  in which Bartlett asks a retired English teacher if she made her students "read Chaucer in th...

Fastitocalon is the name given to a sea creature in an Old English poem called "The Whale." This time I will with poetic art rehea...

This is a slightly different tack for DailyMedieval, but many fans of his fiction are unaware of his career as a medievalist. John Rona...

The various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms Poor Æthelbert! All the attention this blog gives him is in regard to wergild . He deserves attention f...

We don't talk enough about Anglo-Saxon, but the Yule season and Christmas traditions evoke Old English images and customs (at least, i...

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