Epic World History

Thomas Aquinas St. Thomas Aquinas was born at Roccasecca, Italy, to Count Landulf and Countess Theodora. From early on, Thomas was dilig...

Avignonese Papacy The Avignonese papacy (1304–78) and the Great Schism (1378–1414) are regarded as two of the most dramatic events in th...

Bernard of Clairvaux Saint Bernard of Clairvaux was born in 1090 in Fontaine (now a suburb of Dijon in Burgundy, France) of noble parent...

Boniface Known as the Apostle of the Germans, Saint Boniface was educated in England under the influence of Benedictine monasteries in ...

Caesaropapism Caesaropapism is the idea that the emperor had complete control over the Orthodox Greek Church in the Roman/Byzantine Emp...