History of Western Civilization

February 9 – St. Paulinus II, Patriarch of Aquileia

January 27, 2014

January 28 – Larochejacquelein killed by the very men whose lives he spared

January 27, 2014

January 29 – Noble enough to cover five contemporary kings with invective

January 27, 2014

January 26 – She was from one of the first families of Rome

January 23, 2014

The Pope favors removing the Merovingians and acclaiming Pippin the Short as king of the Franks

January 20, 2014

In the Middle Ages, the King Was Subject to the Law, Which Was Sovereign

January 20, 2014

January 21 – He was put to death, just for being a king

January 20, 2014

January 17 – Scanderbeg: the hero of Christendom

January 16, 2014

Medieval Representative Government and the Sanctioning of Law

January 16, 2014

January 19 – Saintly King

January 16, 2014

In the Middle Ages, Law Was Found, Not Made

January 13, 2014

January 13 – The bold strategic vision of Cluny and its first abbot

January 13, 2014

January 13 – The Count Who Converted the King

January 13, 2014

January 15 – Most Glorious King Ceolwulp

January 13, 2014

The Prophet Daniel warns King Baltassar that he will die

January 9, 2014

January 7 – Ordered bandits of royal blood to hang from the highest mast

January 6, 2014

January 2 – The Infant of Prague

January 2, 2014

January 2 – St. Basil the Great

January 2, 2014

In Moral Matters, the Church Has a Right to Intervene in Temporal Society

December 30, 2013

December 31 – Ideal Bishop, Skilled Goldsmith

December 30, 2013

December 31 – The patrician girl who befriended St. Augustine, St. Jerome, and the Empress

December 30, 2013

Alfred the Great’s first battle and victory against the pagans at Ashdown

December 26, 2013

December 29 – David, the ancestor of Jesus

December 26, 2013

December 19 – How Tumultuous Times Reveal Noble Souls

December 19, 2013

December 16 – Can Whistleblowers Be Saints? This One Was…

December 16, 2013

December 17 – St. Olympias

December 16, 2013

December 17 – St. Sturmius and the diocese of Fulda

December 16, 2013

Bad elites hastened the fall of Constantinople

December 12, 2013

December 10 – The First Pope to Live in a Palace

December 9, 2013

December 2 – Cause of Our Joy

December 2, 2013

December 4 – From a Muslim court, he opposed the Christian Emperor…and won!

December 2, 2013

November 28 – December 27 – Siege of Jasna Góra

November 28, 2013

December 1 – The Virgin Mary appears to General Gaston de Sonis after his army’s losses at Patay promising that France would survive

November 28, 2013

November 27 – The king who made France “First-born daughter of the Church”

November 25, 2013

Christ the King? Or Christ the President?

November 21, 2013

November 18 – He Started the Cluniac Reform

November 18, 2013

November 19 – St. Nerses I, Bishop of Armenia, Martyr

November 18, 2013

August 13 – The Pope Who Resigned

November 18, 2013

November 14 – St. Lawrence O’Toole

November 14, 2013

November 15 – St. Desiderius of Cahors

November 14, 2013

November 13 – Grand Master of the Order of Christ

November 11, 2013

November 12 – Saint Cunibert

November 11, 2013

November 12 – Fearless and Bold

November 11, 2013

November 12 – Kidnapped, sold as a slave, ransomed by a bishop, and confidante of the emperor

November 11, 2013

November 12 – Noble Ruthenian Stock

November 11, 2013

November 13 – One of the Great Popes of the Middle Ages

November 11, 2013

The Pope favors removing the Merovingians and acclaiming Pippin the Short as king of the Franks

November 7, 2013

November 7 – St. Willibrord and the Dancing Procession

November 7, 2013

November 8 – Charlemagne sent him to his enemies

November 7, 2013

November 10 – Who Was the First Pope to Be Called “Great,” and Why?

November 7, 2013

November 1 – For saving her people, she was made their judge

October 31, 2013

All Saints’ Day: How many saints were noble?

October 31, 2013

November 2 – His mother celebrated his death as if it were a wedding

October 31, 2013

November 3 – The Battle of Mentana

October 31, 2013

October 28 – Saint, Soldier, Statesman

October 28, 2013

October 29 – King turned monk, his people begged him to lead them in battle against Penda

October 28, 2013

October 30 – St. Marcellus the Centurion, Martyr

October 28, 2013

October 25 – The original hood

October 24, 2013

October 25 – Memorial of Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, Many of Them Nobles

October 24, 2013

October 25 – Crispin and Crispian and the baron of Renty

October 24, 2013

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