Daily Medieval

When Pope Honorius II wanted to resolve a dispute in England between the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, he sent Giovanni of Crema as h...

Bernard of Clairvaux was concerned (as just about everyone for several centuries) about the relationship between religious and secular autho...

In 1134, a man in his 20s entered Rievaulx, a Cistercian abbey in North Yorkshire. A sentence like this has been written many times in this ...

Thurstan (or Turstin) of Bayeaux (c.1070 - 1140) was the son of a priest (this was before Anselm disallowed priests in England to marry ). ...

While Anselm was still abbot of Bec and avoiding the journey to England to become Archbishop of Canterbury because of William II's auth...