Daily Medieval

The Saxon Wars (see Part 1 ) were a series of campaigns led by Charlemagne to incorporate and Christianize Saxony. A first phase was complet...

In central Germany is the town of Erfurt, the capital of the state of Thuringia. Its first mention is in 742 CE when St. Boniface wrote to ...

Willibald spent ten years at Monte Cassino, sharing the experiences of his wide travels and helping to shape the monastic experience for Mo...

Although St. Willibald wrote about St. Boniface (to whom he was related on his mother's side), what we mostly know about him came from ...

Portrayals of St. Boniface almost always show an axe in his hand or in the background. This stems from the story of Donar's Oak, a tree...

About 675 CE in Wessex, England, a boy named Wynfrid was born to a noble family. Educated in the Benedictine abbeys of Exeter and Nursling, ...

Fulda is a town in Hesse, Germany. In 744 CE, a disciple of St. Boniface named St. Sturm built a monastery there, intended to be the largest...

Tertullian in 220 CE wrote De Pallio  ("Concerning the Pallium"), in which he talks about clothing fashion in different countries....

[ source ] This blog has mentioned before that St. Boniface called for help from women as well as men when he attempted to christianize...

Saint Walburga (c.710-779), mentioned yesterday because of the "Oil of Saints" that flows from the stone and metal on which her re...