Daily Medieval

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...

After the conversion to Christianity of King Edwin of Northumbria in 627 CE, his people followed suit. About 634, Cuthbert was born to a wel...

The Venerable Bede tells a story of Pope Gregory I in the Roman slave market, seeing some fair-haired and light-skinned slaves from Britain ...

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

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

Easter is the "floatiest" of floating holidays in the Western calendar. The 7th century saw a very serious debate over how the da...

The Synod of Whitby is a familiar name to fans of medieval history (and this blog ). What is not widely known is that it was first manage...

This blog has touched on the debate over the date of Easter in the past, but the truth is that the early Church went through different phase...

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