Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the death of St. Gregory of Tours, Pope Boniface VIII issuing a ...

The recent comments by popular historian William Dalrymple at the Indian Express’s Idea Exchange have caused ripples among ...

Mr Rosenberg’s novel does not have the high literary merit of Amis’s, but it is a clever reimagining of a tumultuous period ...

Indian academia is sometimes unfairly maligned because it was not designed for the decentralised, instantaneous information transmission of the 21st century.

The practice of reading is not what it once was. In this age of information, adults in the United States read fewer books with each passing year, and for many, reading has become synonymous with the ...

In “Opus,” Gareth Gore tells the story of a Catholic organization tangled up in right-wing politics and accusations of human trafficking.

A campaign to return a 13th-century copy of the Bible to its ancestral home in Salisbury Cathedral has been hailed by the ...

A rare 13th-century Bible could return to its ancestral home in Salisbury Cathedral more than 700 years after it was written.

Papal elections aren't always as dramatic as "Conclave," a new film starring Ralph Fiennes, but the history behind the process is.

Sequestered cardinals would not tarry in long discussions, especially when they were away from the comfort of their own palaces, allowed only a single attendant and sleeping in simple cells. If they ...

The weight of 2024’s history books concentrates, as often in recent years, on the last century or so – though with revelatory ...

The book breaks new ground by shifting focus from land-based Indian history to the vital role of maritime trade in spreading ...