Pope Leo XIV's Augustinian order once performed green-fingered, dragon-slaying miracles. Dr Krisztina Ilko rediscovers their ...

Travellers have always faced health hazards when far from home. Medieval people were no exception. Pilgrims, crusaders and others were warned by preachers such as 13th century Jacques de Vitry of ...

David Lowery's excellent and underrated The Green Knight (which is a stealth Christmas movie) is now streaming for free on ...

The Arabic text along the Virgin Mary’s dress “runs so counter to our clash-of-civilizations mindset about Christianity and ...

GenAI systems rely on algorithmic control mechanisms that shape public discourse while remaining opaque to users and ...

Danish archaeologists unearthed dozens of medieval graves, shedding light on how disease and hardship shaped life in early ...

In the Middle Ages, colors weren’t just aesthetic choices — they carried strict social meaning, religious symbolism, and even ...

Religious maps from the 1300s showing tribal Israel inadvertently became the blueprint for how later mapmakers drew political ...

Installation view of Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages at The Met Cloisters showing a sculpture of Saint Sebastian (Northern Europe, late 15th century) (all photos Emma ...

President Trump’s nominee for US ambassador for international religious freedom is in Israel this week, visiting at a symbolic time as the administration continues its landmark push for peace in Gaza.

Some good old-fashioned swinging? Medieval photoshopping? Not quite, but scientists have discovered something about Francis I of Brittany that he would surely have preferred to have kept secret.