As familiar notions suggest, medieval medicine was influenced by herbs and humours. But these factors were part of a broader ...

Faced with a range of serious patient reactions to the COVID-19 disease, doctors and nurses have sometimes struggled to find viable treatment options. But when we examine faith-based responses to the ...

In the past twenty years, especially, many books have been written on women in the Middle Ages. The editors have selected ten of these volumes that provide a helpful introduction or general study: ...

Church and State are often depicted as natural enemies. Well, aren’t they? Consider the classics A Man for All Seasons and Becket. Henry II and Henry VIII embody the power of an absolute State, while ...

For people living in the Middle Ages, death was not the end but the beginning of a spiritual journey. Medieval Christians ...

Medieval Christianity seems dark and foreign—until you take a closer look. The medieval world conjures up all sorts of images, but it’s the unusual ones that often stick in our minds: a woman kneeling ...

The biblical book of Ezekiel describes a vision of the divine that medieval philosophers understood as revealing the connection between religion and science. By Matthaeus Merian (1593-1650), CC BY-NC ...