Middle Ages

A new biographer finds that consulting the spotty historical record only gets him so far.

Archaeologists are using over a million amateur finds to study pilgrimage sites, the Black Death, and the Protestant Reformation.

Medieval Christianity holds up a helpful mirror to the contemporary church.

As both a writer and a scholar, his work hearkened back to a “slow, contemplative, symphonic world.”

Historian Justo González charts how observance of the Lord’s Day has changed over time.

What’s behind our timeless fascination with religious pilgrimage?

Christianity in one Spanish village—a historical re-creation.

The two most widespread medieval heresies

In the medieval world, what you taught your children was not just your business.</

During the Black Death, the greatest catastrophe in human history, how did Christians respond?