Daily Medieval

When Pope Innocent II decided to try to reconcile the Roman Catholic Church with the Armenian Apostolic Church , he wrote to its current he...

Once Cnut was firmly established as king, he set about ensuring his power. He first executed or drove away (if they were wise) potential ri...

The professional relationship between Anselm of Canterbury and King William II of England was as rocky as any similar pairing through Engl...

Anselm of Bec was the natural successor to Lanfranc as Archbishop of Canterbury, but King William II "Rufus" left the see vacant ...

About 675 CE in Wessex, England, a boy named Wynfrid was born to a noble family. Educated in the Benedictine abbeys of Exeter and Nursling, ...

Tertullian in 220 CE wrote De Pallio  ("Concerning the Pallium"), in which he talks about clothing fashion in different countries....

If you search online for "Sigeric of Canterbury" the top entries returned are about his itinerary, as mentioned previously. He did...