Allegedly, copies of the Bible were chained to the walls of churches during the Middle Ages so that people could not take them home to read. Supposedly the Church during the Middle Ages also ...

Grigory Kessel, a medievalist from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, used ultraviolet photography to analyze the Syriac translation of the Bible ... come by in the Middle Ages, so when manuscripts ...

The Middle Ages spanned 1,000 years ... In good medieval tradition, it's slathered in the predictable Bible stories. The story of Adam and Eve, one of the most popular, unfolds like a cartoon ...

The Christian Bible devotes only a few passages to the ... from heaven like a flash of lightning.” At the dawn of the Middle Ages in the fifth century, authors began to apply the Vulgate term ...

“Without a doubt,” writes Gordon, a scholar of the Reformation, “one of the greatest mistruths perpetuated by the Protestant Reformation is that the Bible disappeared during the Middle Ages.” ...

The Vulgate became the predominantly used Bible of the Middle Ages and has endured to this day as a translation that at least one prominent linguist considers one of the very best available. “ ...

“This was an interesting period because, on the one hand, you have the tradition of sacred geography with the Bible locating events ... us the situation of the Middle East at the time.

In the Bible, it's clear, light is divine ... In England, the York Minster brilliantly shows that the late Middle Ages were far from dark. This window's the size of a tennis court.