Daily Medieval

Charlemagne's son and successor as emperor, Louis the Pious , had several children. Several of them were with his first wife, Ermengarde...

7th c. Asturian Church of Santa Cristina de Lena, Spain This will be a brief introduction to the styles of medieval architecture that e...

Nicknames: so easy to get, so hard to get rid of. When Mayor of the Palace and military genius  Charles Martel presented his 12-year-old s...

I have mentioned St.-Denis in Paris as the first church in the Gothic style. That project was a re -building of an earlier church—a churc...

Abbot Suger in stained glass Back here , I discussed Gothic architecture, but there was no time to mention its birthplace, the Abbey Chu...