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06 January 2025
The Sylvestrines
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The Benedictine Confederation is an alliance of monastic orders who follow the Rules of the Benedictines. Some of these orders were founded ...
25 December 2024
Rudolph I
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The Second Council of Lyon decided the ending the Interregnum was best done by selecting Rudolph I as King of Germany (and therefore Holy ...
09 August 2024
Saint Margaret of Scotland
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Margaret of Wessex was almost 50 years old in 1093 when her husband, King Malcolm III of Scotland, and her eldest son went to war against t...
04 April 2024
John of Plano Carpini
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Marco Polo is known for traveling to the Far East from Europe and observing things unknown to Europeans, but there were many travelers from ...
12 January 2024
The Last Holdout
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As the western world was turned to Christianity from paganism, there was one area that did not rush to baptism. In 1009CE, there is a refere...
04 December 2023
Theodoric Borgognoni
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Speaking of surgery recently, we need to take a look at Theodoric Borgognoni, who pioneered some practices that were ahead of their time. B...
20 June 2023
Henry's Statute of Jewry
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St. Augustine of Hippo (354 - 430) was one of the most influential writers in Christianity in its first few centuries. He believed that Jews...
24 September 2022
Pope Innocent IV
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Innocent IV (born Sinibaldo Fieschi) had a busy decade. He lived longer than that, of course, and was consequential, but there is a lot of u...
29 March 2016
The Crusade Nobody Wanted
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In 1244, allies of the Egyptian Mamluks, retreating westward from the advancing Mongols, stopped at Jerusalem long enough to recapture it f...
28 March 2016
The Saint Who Said "No"
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Saint Isabella, at a church in Paris Isabella of France (1224 - 1270) was the daughter of King Louis VIII and Blanche of Castile. Her b...
09 December 2015
The Talmud Compromise
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Although Pope Gregory IX felt it his duty to protect the Jews , he had issues with their Talmud, the collection of Jewish laws and practice...
20 November 2015
He Thought He Was King
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In the post on short-lived reigns, I mentioned John I of France, sone of Louis X and Clémence of Hungary, who reigned five days because he ...
09 October 2014
The Unexpected King
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Afonso (1210 - 1279) was the second son of Afonso II of Portugal, and so never expected to inherit the throne. It was supposed to go to h...
01 August 2014
The First Polo
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Marco Polo was not the only, or the first, western European to travel to the East. When Pope Innocent IV wanted to send a letter to the G...
31 July 2014
Dear Khan, Dear Pope
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Ögedei Khan, who never got the letter Relations between the East and West have always been strained, generally because of radically dif...
03 June 2014
The Battle of Lewes
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The remains of Lewes Castle King John wasn't the only English monarch who had his barons turn against him (forcing him to sign the...
15 May 2014
More on Torture
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We've talked about torture before, regarding the Templars , and the "ultimate" torture of being hanged, drawn and quartered...
27 March 2013
Canon Law and Muslims
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Today picks up from the previous post . Although canon law did not apply to non-Christian populations, that attitude changed when Europe...
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