Daily Medieval

To continue yesterday's post and talk about "re-orienting" wayward bishops with "wrong" ideas, we should first look ...

Theodore of Tarsus likely never thought that a Greek who in his youth had to flee Persian and Muslim invasions would one day wind up Archbis...

Wilfrid's knowledge of Roman Christianity and his opposition to Celtic Christianity made him the ideal candidate to attend the Synod of ...

Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum ("History of the Church of the English People") lists Wilfrid as one of the men...

If, of the members of the Benedictine Confederation, the Camaldolese Congregation was founded in 980, and the Vallombrosians in 1036, how ca...

Start typing the word "venerable" into a search engine on the Internet and one of the options offered will be "venerable Bede...

King Oswiu (also Oswy or Oswig), who was a friend of Benedict Biscop , ruled Bernicia, a small section of Northumberland between what is n...

12th c. image of St. Cuthbert St. Cuthbert (c.634-687), briefly mentioned here , never stayed in one place for very long—not even after ...