Daily Medieval

It is time to talk about Nestorianism, the man who started it, and the fact that even though it was declared heretical it lasted in areas un...

Peter of Bruys is known to us because of the writings of two of his enemies. He was born in southeastern France and became a Roman Catholic ...

After being slapped down at the Council of Pisa in 1135, Henry of Lausanne refused an invitation to join St. Bernard at Clairvaux, opting ...

As Christianity expanded to different regions and with different authorities, philosophical discussions and policies and practices developed...

Gilles, the Baron de Rais (c.1405 - 26 October 1440) was a French leader during the Hundred Years War. In 1429 he was made the Marshal of Fr...

Isabelle Romée (1377 - 1458) grew up in Vouthon-Bas and move to Domrémy when she married Jacques d'Arc , a wealthy farmer who had inheri...

After she was captured by the French Burgundians and handed over to the English, Jeanne d'Arc was taken to Rouen (the center of the En...

Jacques Fournier (c.1285 - 25 April 1342) was born in Foix, a county in the southern part of France. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy at the...

When French historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1929 – 2023) set out to write an account of a typical French medieval village, based on certa...

Was Lollardy popular? Besides for Sir John Oldcastle and John Wycliffe , I mean. Because Lollards believed that baptism and confession wer...

What was Lollardy, and why was it so dangerous or objectionable that Sir John Oldcastle needed to be executed for it in 1414? That Wycliffe...

When Sir John Oldcastle escaped from the Tower of London to avoid execution for the heresy of Lollardy, he fled to Cooling Castle and becam...

Priscillianism was considered heretical partially because its origin was in gnostic beliefs coming from Egypt. Gnosticism, from the Greek γν...

Priscillian (c.340 - 385) was a good enough theologian that he was made Bishop of Ávila Spain in 380, but controversial enough that he had m...

Priscillian was the first person to be excommunicated and  executed (that we know of) because of his "heretical" beliefs. I use th...

Vincent of Lérins lived at a time when there were many different factions preaching different versions of Christianity. No one wanted this c...

The earliest mention of the man who became Pope Celestine I was a reference to "Celestine the Deacon" in a 416 document by Pope In...

One of the more notable Beguines was the French mystic Marguerite Porete. We know little about her life except what was recorded in her tri...

The first thing you'll notice is quotation marks around the "Peter" in the title. That is because Peter was likely not his nam...

The Waldensians are a Christian protestant group that originated in the Middle Ages and still exists, having survived—sometimes through seve...