(The Conversation) — At a time when so much violence and war are ravaging the world, a scholar of medieval Christianity explains Catholic views on the morality of warfare and the value of forgiving ...

Last year I was leading a student through the dark wood of postmodern theory. A week or two into the term, he observed that postmodernism felt like a rarefied form of courtly love. Whatever they call ...

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(The Conversation) — A scholar of medieval Christianity explores the history of Christians who spoke out, unafraid to risk official censure or even death. (The Conversation) — Episcopal Bishop Mariann ...

Early 13th-century-CE (likely biased) depiction of the 'pagan' Irish kingship ceremony, during which the king bathed in the blood of a mare before sharing the meat with his courtiers. From ...

Hanging over my fireplace is a print of Holbein’s portrait of Thomas More, purchased at the Tower of London, the place of his execution. Five feet away, on an angled wall, hangs a watercolor of Samuel ...

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In 2022, archaeologists worked on the ancient DNA from a number of early medieval cemeteries, and found two individuals that ...

“The streets whisper to me,” John says, “as I walk around.” Then he tells me how, whenever an urban site comes under ...