Canons Regular and England’s Only Homegrown Order Not every medieval religious community fit neatly into the four great monastic orders — a whole separate category, the Canons Regular, blurred the line between cloistered monk and working parish priest, and England even produced its own entirely homegrown version of the concept. Canons Regular were priests who […]
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The Medieval Bath (Such As It Was)
The Medieval Bath (Such As It Was) One of the most persistent questions about medieval life is also one of the hardest to answer with any confidence: did people actually bathe? The honest answer from the records is a shrug, but a more interesting shrug than you might expect. There’s no systematic evidence for how […]