Daily Medieval

Double monasteries, such as the one mentioned in this post , was a monastery that combined two communities, one of men and one of women. The...

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

There were two significant designations for kings in Ireland. Of the several different kingdoms on the Emerald Isle, only one of them had po...

Although we use the term "renaissance" to refer primarily to a rebirth of art and culture that started in 14th century Italy and s...

Hautvillers is a commune in northeastern France. In 650 the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter (in French it was the Abbaye Saint-Pierre d'...

One purpose of the Daily Medieval blog is to bring to light knowledge of characters and events that do not reach the mainstream culture....

Recent posts about the differences between Irish Christianity and other practices in the early medieval church are due largely to the wor...

The previous post discussed some aspects of Celtic Christianity found in the British Isles that differed from the "mainstream" ...