The notion of a “persecuting society” has achieved an unwarranted acceptance among many medievalists, who now merely assume that raw hatred, hunger for power and the creation of a homogenous society ...

A newly published volume reveals that art objects—both Muslim and Christian—played a pivotal role in fostering peace and ...

An exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum charts the influence and allure of the Book of Psalms across religions and cultures during the Middle Ages.

In his catechesis to the 8,000 present during Wednesday's general audience, Pope Benedict XVI spoke of "the glory of the Christian Middle Ages," the Romanesque and Gothic cathedrals. He described how ...

When we learn music today, one of the first things we encounter is the familiar set of syllables used to name the notes of the scale: do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do. To many people, this seems ...

Maurizio Ormas, Freedom and its roots. The establishment of human rights in the Church’s Pastoral from the origins to the sixteenth century, preface by R. Buttiglione Effatà, Cantalupa 2009, pp. 303.

The hour has struck for our “conversion,” for personal transformation, for interior renewal. We must get used to thinking of man in a new way; and in a new way also of men’s life in common; with a new ...

Europe spent 1000 years in its Middle Ages after Rome fell and rebounded Around A.D. 1000. After Rome fell, Europe spent a thousand years in its Middle Ages. Its art shows how the light of ...