Wilmer, the eleventh century monk of Malmesbury Abbey, usually known as the ‘Flying Monk’, is back in the news. However this time it is not ...

140 years ago today, on the evening of June 13th 1886, the body of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and that of one of his doctors were found float...

I came upon an interest post on Substack  from The Fake History Hunter  which sets out to show the wide variety of foods available to mediev...

Yesterday I attended online a most interesting set of lunchtime lectures at the Society of Antiquaries about the ongoing archaeological inve...

Today is the 650th anniversary of the death of Edward, Prince of Wales in 1376. He was a week short of his forty sixth birthday, the nationa...

I am sure we are all familiar with the illuminated marginalia in medieval manuscripts, especially those from the thirteenth century onwards....

The always scholarly and informed website Rorate Cæli  has two new articles which are both important contributions to the debate about the p...

  Corpus Christi, with its emphasis on the liturgical Presence of the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Our Lord seems a not inappropriat...