Century England, a dark-skinned saint with a promiscuous past became a boundary-breaking cultural and religious icon. A new ...

The Boston College Libraries have strong holdings especially in the early and medieval periods. Summer language instruction ... to the Ph.D. program with a research interest in History of Christianity ...

I n 2005, the late conservative writer Lawrence Auster published a response to one of his critics. The critic argued that ...

The fresco provides crucial evidence of a medieval church using Islamic tents in key Christian practices, including mass, the study suggests. "Islamic textiles were associated with the Holy Land ...

The 11 medieval monolithic cave churches of this 13th-century 'New Jerusalem' are situated in a mountainous region in the heart of Ethiopia near a traditional village with circular-shaped dwellings.

However, these medieval hospitals were very different ... mosque and occasionally a chapel for Christian patients. Musicians were often employed to comfort and cheer patients up.

The scribbles allude to the inner way of thinking of the pilgrims, offering unique information as to the personal motives for undertaking the arduous travel and insights into the making of Western ...