Daily Medieval

When Pope Clement VI wanted to build a new chapel connected to the papal complex in Avignon and have it lavishly decorated, he called on Ma...

Sweden's most celebrated saint was Birgitta Birgersdotter, the daughter of a magnate, knight, privy councilor, and the first law speaker...

Ramon Llull's system of philosophy was officially condemned by an Inquisitor General of the Roman Catholic Church, Nicholas Eymerich, a ...

When St. Benedict decided to create a place where men could quietly contemplate God, removed from the cares of the world, he chose a 1700-f...

John Hawkwood (c.1323 - 1394) was an English soldier who became famous as a mercenary leader. Many Italian city-states hired foreign mercena...

Poor Bernabò Visconti. Lord of Milan, not well-liked by his people, deposed and imprisoned (then likely poisoned) by his nephew. Of course, ...

While other history sites were celebrating the anniversary of the coronation of King Henry II yesterday, I was thinking about the anniversar...

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 ...

The history of medicine includes many brave and progressive thinkers who were not willing to follow the herd or be content with what was alr...

A church reformer gets his start. We don't know a lot about the early years of John Wycliffe (c.1324-1384). There were likely a few &...