Fine analysis of over a thousand human remains in the Nile Valley has revealed a previously unknown practice: facial ...

Fourteenth century tombstone relief at a monastery built in 1009 in the Pyrenees Fourteenth century tombstone relief at a monastery built in 1009 in the PyreneesUniversal Images Group via Getty Today, ...

The crusades to the Holy Land were a consuming obsession of Latin Christianity for four centuries and remain among the most famous episodes of the Middle Ages. Yet, in the perspective of history, they ...

Numen, Vol. 63, No. 2/3, Special Issue: Divine Word and Divine Work: Late Platonism and Religion (2016), pp. 245-270 (26 pages) The development of medieval Christian thought reveals from its inception ...

The idea of "public" spectacle in the medieval period was quite different from that of the Greek and Roman world. Spectacle in the Middle Ages revolved around Christianity and the Church, consisting ...

The hour has struck for our “conversion,” for personal transformation, for interior renewal. We must get used to thinking of man in a new way; and in a new way also of men’s life in common; with a new ...

Early Europeans produce diverse art: from Christians to Muslims and Byzantines to Vikings. After Rome’s fall, Europe’s Christians kept culture alive with art rooted in their deep faith. We visit ...