Among the most popular books of the time, bestiaries were filled with real and mythical animals and their lore, the ...

These saints from centuries ago still speak urgently with timeless messages on community, knowledge, creativity, ...

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 ...

The idea of "public" spectacle in the medieval period was quite different from that of the Greek and Roman world. Spectacle in the Middle Ages revolved around Christianity and the Church, consisting ...

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 ...

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 ...