Daily Medieval

Christianity came to Britain early. Tertullian and Origen, writing in the early 3rd century, mention Christian figures there. What is now Ch...

Pope Innocent I was an early-5th century Italian pope. The Liber Pontificalis ["Book of Popes"] says he was the son of a man wh...

I have written about the Oxford Calculators , four men at Oxford University in the second quarter of the 14th century who made great strid...

Coptic Icon of St. Mark Coptic Christians have suddenly been in the news, from a centuries-old fragment of papyrus with a supposed refer...

His feast day is Leap Day, so he's celebrated only every 4 years. He is revered in the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic ...

Arius was not the only early writer whose ideas were superseded by other theologians, making him a heretic. One of the next great disruptio...