Daily Medieval

Every once in awhile, I decide to throw in bits and pieces that come my way but don't fit into a regular post. I did one here for the d...

What makes a pope into an antipope? In 355, the Roman Emperor Constantius II (317-361) wasn't happy with the pope. Constantius was an ...

Pope Celestine V might have needed Cardinal Benedetto Gaetani to find a justification for him to resign, but papal resignations had taken p...

Yesterday referred to the resignation of Pope Celestine V, and that there was some confusion about it. It was not common for popes to resig...

When Pope Boniface VIII wasn't excommunicating people for treating corpses in unapproved ways , he was very busy doing lots of other t...