The fresco provides crucial evidence of a medieval church using Islamic tents in key Christian practices, including mass, the ...

With the election of a new pope, some have reexamined an alleged prophecy by a 12th century Irish saint who predicted the ...

Heather, the chair of medieval history at King's College London, is the author of Christendom: The Triumph of Religion, AD 300-1300 For the first millennium of Christianity’s existence ...

During the late medieval period, pagans in northern Europe’s Baltic region imported horses from neighboring Christian countries for use in funeral rituals, according to a new study from Cardiff ...

In the Middle Ages, these fearsome monsters were adopted from antiquity and adapted to fit the mindset of the time. In A.D. 313, the Edict of Milan established legal tolerance for Christianity ...

C. Teviotdale. “While there have been many subsequent studies concerning the nature of the Christian elements in Beowulf, none has offered a comparably thorough investigation of the poem’s ...

He is also an occasional marathon runner. Frans van Liere's interests include Medieval Europe, Medieval biblical exegesis, Jewish-Christian relations, schools and universities, and the Avignon papacy.

A longstanding myth holds that people in medieval Christian Europe didn’t bathe. In fact, the Middle Ages subscribed heartily to the adage “cleanliness is next to godliness.” Thinkers of the ...