Medieval News

“Why you?” a man asked Francesco di Bernardone, known to us now as St. Francis of Assisi. Francis (1181/2-1226) was scrawny and plain-loo...

A medieval nun is poised to become an unlikely chart star after her liturgical chants were transformed into music by Madonna’s record pro...

An archaeological dig on a Scottish island has unearthed the remains of what is thought to be a monastery founded by one of the country’s ...

In Siena's Pinocateca Nazionale museum, four chairs have been placed in a row in front of Simone Martini's Altarpiece of Blessed Ago...

A recent article on sexuality and childbirth in early medieval Ireland reveals some surprising attitudes towards abortion held among the Chr...

Few figures in medieval history are as famous as Thomas Becket, and fewer have been subject to such utterly differing interpretations. To pi...

The classic account of St Patrick’s life tells us that he was abducted from Western Britain in his teens and forced into slavery in Ireland ...

The theft of a medieval relic from a church in Ireland earlier this week is raising questions about the security of these places of worship ...

Here is a series of articles about the theft of the relic of St. Laurence O’Toole this weekend from a church in Dublin, Ireland. Somewhere...

The preserved heart of St Laurence O’Toole, Dublin’s patron saint has been stolen from the city’s Christ Church Cathedral. The theft occurre...

One of the key figures associated with the Middle Ages in England has been King Arthur, the legendary ruler who was made popular in medieval...

Keith Briggs, a visiting research fellow in linguistics at the University of the West of England, has proposed a new site for the battle in ...

Some may say that the world of academia is boring; those people probably aren’t studying crossdressing saints of the Middle Ages. The Young ...

Archaeologists working in the Oxfordshire town of Bicester believe they have discovered a reliquary containing some of the bones of Saint Ed...

Jocelin of Furness was one of the most significant writers to emerge from England’s north-west during the Middle Ages, but historians have t...

In celebration of Colmcille Day, the Northern Ireland city of Derry is hosting a lecture by Gilbert Markus on “Place Names and Saints’ Cults...

Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, probably ate fare similar to today's pricey health foods such as cereal, fish and seaweed, a...

The images of saints in medieval Europe bear an uncanny resemblance to modern pornographic images, says Cary Howie, assistant professor of R...

The great grandmother of Jesus was a woman named Ismeria, according to Florentine medieval manuscripts analyzed by a historian. The legend...

In a region already rich with archaeological artefacts, the excavation of a small alabaster box containing a few pieces of bone amid the rui...