Daily Medieval

The Synod of Whitby is a familiar name to fans of medieval history (and this blog ). What is not widely known is that it was first manage...

King Oswy (also Oswiu or Oswig), who was a friend of Benedict Biscop , ruled Bernicia, a small section of Northumberland between what is n...

The cleric and writer called the Venerable Bede has cropped up many times here; his learning is known to us by his translation of parts of ...