Few individuals in church history have straddled the fault line between insider and outsider quite so capably as Francis of ...

Cambridge University researchers found a manuscript with rare Arthurian tales bound into a ledger more than 400 years old and ...

Bahr undertook a complete re-examination of the tome, complete with spectroscopic analysis and mathematical investigation, to ...

The pope’s embrace of literature and history is a sharp contrast to some of his predecessors, a medievalist explains.

Elaine Pagels remains fascinated by the mysteries of Jesus after decades of study. In her latest book, she revels in the ...

Below, in vague chronological order, are a few of my favorites.

The first thing to say about laissez-faire liberalism is that it arose in Europe, specifically in Western Christendom. This ...

Gen Z Says is a bimonthly column chronicling the latest trends in the fashion-and-beauty space through the lens of Who What ...

Found by a metal detectorist in England, the item features a sapphire surrounded by two emeralds and two stones that are ...

A rare 13th-century manuscript fragment containing medieval stories of Merlin and King Arthur has been 'virtually unrolled' ...

MIT professor of literature Arthur Bahr had one of the best days of his life. Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed ...

A new kind of kingdom needed a new kind of queen. The millennium-old and largely forgotten Mathilda of Flanders is being ...