The City of Leeds in the U.K. recently revealed a Saxon treasure: a gilded pendant from Northumbria's Christian past, ...

Medieval Christianity holds up a helpful mirror to the contemporary church. In recent decades, evangelicals studying faith in the Middle Ages have done much to recover its variety and richness.

In contrast, the Middle Ages in Europe was all about the Christian church. Some historians have put forth the idea that the church crushed religious dissent and any actions by people seeking to ...

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 ...

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 ...

After all, during the Middle Ages the city passed from one conqueror to another, often in bloody religious warfare that pitted Muslims against Christians, notably in the Crusades. Yet more often ...

When the Christian soldiers of the First Crusade ... the overall religious and sociological ethos of the Middle Ages can be called penitential, by which he means that “all traces and memories ...