Education in medieval Iceland

[Imperial Dave]

https://www.medievalists.net/2024/10/education-medieval-iceland/?utm_source=gravitec&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=Push%20Notification

Who'd be a Bishop...?

[Erpingham]

Nolo epscopari, as they say.

[Erpingham]

I did like their definition of the end of the Middle Ages and its date

"Iceland was an island without cities or towns, even at the end of the Middle Ages – conventionally dated to 1550, when the last Catholic bishop was beheaded and the country became formally Lutheran."

I find different countries' ideas of when the end of the Middle Ages was interesting.

[Imperial Dave]

I thought the beheading bit was quite interesting....

[Erpingham]

At a similar period, we were, of course, happily beheading bishops, abbots, even wives 

[Jim Webster]

At a similar period, we were, of course, happily beheading bishops, abbots, even wives 

Equal opportunities.  We beheaded lay people as well and went on to behead a monarch