Daily Medieval

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

Marie de France (c.1160 - 1215) is called that because of one line from her writing: "Marie ai num, si sui de France." It means &q...

History is written by the victors, or so it is said, and I was warned in graduate school always to question an author's intent. Everyone...

One of the oldest roadways in Northern Europe is the Sweet Track, of crossed wooden poles driven into waterlogged ground to support oak plan...

The first of February is the date of the Irish quarter-year festival called Imbolc. Imbolc is Old Irish for "in the belly"; it ...

Today is an important day in Sweden : Anna's Day, celebrating all people named Anna. It is also the traditional day to start preparati...

Anti-Irish sentiment has a long heritage. In the Middle Ages, Ireland was a target of Western Europe disdain for at least two reasons. 1...