Medieval Christianity holds up a helpful mirror to the contemporary church. In recent decades, evangelicals studying faith in the Middle Ages have done much to recover its variety and richness. Yet a ...
Historians recently unearthed some "health hacks" dating back to the Middle Ages – and some sound like they came straight off TikTok. The database, called the Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine, ...
In the illuminating and entertaining blog Going Medieval, Eleanor Janega, a medievalist at the London School of Economics, upends prevalent misconceptions about medieval Europe. These ...
Medieval writers transformed tales of an obscure bard into legends of a mighty wizard who put King Arthur on the throne of Camelot. Merlin presents ArthurIn exchange for using his magic to help ...
Throughout history, connecting with younger generations has always been a challenging pursuit. But in the 12th century, one brave preacher gave it his best shot, delivering a sermon in Latin that ...
As both a writer and a scholar, his work hearkened back to a “slow, contemplative, symphonic world.” In the prologue to The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien tells us two things about his beloved ...
On Wednesday, September 18, the Friends of PUL’s own Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski will reveal the story of Venice-born French writer Christine de Pizan (c. 1364-c. 1430). Raised in an intellectual ...
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