Church and State are often depicted as natural enemies. Well, aren’t they? Consider the classics A Man for All Seasons and Becket. Henry II and Henry VIII embody the power of an absolute State, while ...

Imagine yourself in a 13th-century North African prison where you are being held for refusing to renounce your Catholic faith. Conditions are cruel, and you are losing hope of seeing your family again ...

In the past twenty years, especially, many books have been written on women in the Middle Ages. The editors have selected ten of these volumes that provide a helpful introduction or general study: ...

Medieval Christianity seems dark and foreign—until you take a closer look. The medieval world conjures up all sorts of images, but it’s the unusual ones that often stick in our minds: a woman kneeling ...

Faced with a range of serious patient reactions to the COVID-19 disease, doctors and nurses have sometimes struggled to find viable treatment options. But when we examine faith-based responses to the ...

(RNS) — Archaeologists hope to capitalize on a local fad for metal detecting to examine pilgrimage and personal piety in areas where the written record is thin. (RNS) — Much has been written about ...

Panels on the octagonal font in the nave of St. Margaret’s church have medieval markings thought to bring luck or protect from evil.(Courtesy Matthew Champion, Norfolk and Suffolk Medieval Graffiti ...

Chickens were domesticated from Asian jungle fowl around 6,000 years ago. Since domestication they have acquired a number of traits that are valuable to humans, including those concerning appearance, ...

Phillip I. Lieberman has received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is affiliated with Vanderbilt University. Faced with a range of serious patient reactions to the COVID-19 ...