Daily Medieval

There's a scene early in The Name of the Rose  involving barrels of pigs' blood. It was autumn, and time to slaughter the pigs, but ...

When Gerard Segarelli was rejected by the Franciscans, he took matters into his own hands and formed the Apostolic Brethren in 1260. The B...

St. Francis of Assisi The Mendicant Orders were a 13th century movement that stirred up great controversy in the Middle Ages. Called so ...

John Wycliffe (c.1324-1384), first discussed yesterday , started his career as a respectable Oxford scholar and theologian. His religion and...