Across Europe, many medieval churches stand on land that was considered sacred long before Christianity arrived. At first glance, these stone buildings seem purely Christian, shaped by crosses, bells, ...

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 History of Christianity (HC) area studies past theological reflection on the faith and practice of the Church, especially in early and medieval Christianity. The HC area strives to appreciate ...

A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars. The 700-year-old fresco is thought to be the only ...

Archaeologists excavating at a medieval cemetery in Denmark have found the burials of 77 people who were early Christians in the area but still likely harbored pagan beliefs. When you purchase through ...

As both a writer and a scholar, his work hearkened back to a “slow, contemplative, symphonic world.” In the prologue to The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien tells us two things about his beloved ...

Researchers have unearthed a Crusader-era altar in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher in a serendipitous discovery that sounds straight out of an Indiana Jones plot. The find, announced by the ...

The worlds of medieval Christianity and science fiction collided in a lecture by Michelle Oing ’07 last Thursday evening. During the event, titled “The Medieval Cyborg: Performing Objects in the Late ...

(The Conversation) — The College of Cardinals is an important part of the church’s governance structure. Its members elect the next pope and help develop future policies for the church. (The ...

A 13 th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars. The 700-year-old fresco is thought to be the only ...