Christmas in the Middle Ages wasn’t all carols and cozy fires. From fasting and feasting to bitter winters and strict ...

Long before costumes and candy, Halloween had deep roots in medieval tradition. We explore how people in the Middle Ages marked this eerie time of year – from All Hallows' Eve rituals and ghost ...

Some activities, such as prayer, are widespread. Others, such as fasting and lighting incense or candles, vary more by country. Pew Research Center.

While on a break from OTA’s, Detroit Lions running back David Montgomery hosted a youth football camp at Lansing Sexton High ...

During the Middle Ages, people and social structures had complicated views of the physically disabled. In a religious context, disability was often seen as a punishment from God or a way to test one’s ...

An aquamanile is a vessel used in the ritual of hand washing in both religious (i.e. by a priest ... A myth persists that during the Middle Ages, the unenlightened believed Earth was flat ...

Fundamentalism is a quintessentially American form of religious expression, but one we associate almost exclusively with ...

To convey how all-encompassing the Roman Catholic Church was during the Middle Ages, the historian R.W. Southern once offered ...

The reasoning, like all things artistic in the Middle Ages, has to do with Jesus ... scientific precision to their figurative works. Non-religious art also flourished at the time as the rising ...

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From his roof, Sidi Mohamed Lemine Sidiya scans the medieval town of Oualata, a treasure that is disappearing under the sands of the Mauritanian desert.