Daily Medieval

England and France were at war for a long time, and neither side was in great shape in the late 1380s. England had been unsuccessful in seve...

The Avignon Papacy, when the French Pope Clement V decided to move the papal headquarters from Rome to Avignon, was not a simple change in ...

The existence of rival popes in the Western Schism led to the Council of Pisa and, ultimately, to the need to elect a third pope. After mo...

To understand where this story begins, you should see this post first, and check out the map to the left. There were two series of popes, o...

When Pope Clement V decided he wanted to live in his home country, France, he moved the papal offices from the Vatican in Rome to Avignon  ...

Catherine of Siena (25 March 1347 - 29 April 1380) wanted to join the Dominicans and retire from the world. This was not only discouraged b...

Tomb of Margareta, at the Monastery Church of Mary Medingen To wrap up a week of religion and mysticism, we turn to Margareta Ebner, a ...

Part 1 showed how Christian writers eventually came to the conclusion that the State was not the result of Man's sinful nature, and had ...