Daily Medieval

What does hair have to do with piety? Well, monks would get tonsured so that their outward appearance signified their role in society. As me...

Julian of Norwich was a Christian mystic who lived (based on internal references in her writings) from about 1342 to 1415. We know little a...

St. Michael and All Angels, Haselbury Plucknett On 20 February 1154, a fight broke out over a corpse. The corpse "belonged" to...

Coptic Icon of St. Mark Coptic Christians have suddenly been in the news, from a centuries-old fragment of papyrus with a supposed refer...

The Leadership Conference of Women Religious is making news , and my desire to make this blog not just interesting and varied but also relev...