The weight of 2024’s history books concentrates, as often in recent years, on the last century or so – though with revelatory ...
Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the death of St. Gregory of Tours, Pope Boniface VIII issuing a ...
Papal elections aren't always as dramatic as "Conclave," a new film starring Ralph Fiennes, but the history behind the process is.
And so it is that this week I found myself booking tickets to London to visit Medieval Women: In Their Own Words at the British Library, an exhibition our reviewer, expert in medieval women’s writing ...
As they dig foundations and stack stones, the women take on everyone from Ovid to the guy who wrote the proverb, “God made women to speak, weep, and sew.” Over the past 600 years, a few of de Pizan’s ...
A historian has formally joined the ranks at Oxford University. Dr Tom Johnson succeeds Professor Ian Forrest as the Catto Fellow in Medieval History at Oriel College. The historian currently has a ...
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 ...
For example, the 686 election of Pope Conon is described in “The Book of Pontiffs,” a medieval collection of short papal ...
A new exhibition at the British Library explores the public, private and spiritual lives of such figures as Joan of Arc, Christine de Pizan and Hildegard of Bingen ...
The New Zealand novelist Catherine Chidgey ought to be much more celebrated in this country than she is. Do not be put off by the fact that The Axeman’s Carnival (Europa, £14.99) is narrated by ...
A rare 13th-century Bible could return to its ancestral home in Salisbury Cathedral more than 700 years after it was written.