A study provides new insights into the many overlooked women scribes who wrote manuscripts in the Middle Ages.

Century England, a dark-skinned saint with a promiscuous past became a boundary-breaking cultural and religious icon. A new ...

Nalanda contributed to the development and evolution of two major Mahayana Buddhist philosophies — Madhyamaka and Yogacara, Abhay K writes in his book, 'Nalanda: How it Changed the World'. Excerpts: ...

One morning in January, I met the musician Lucy Dacus at the Cloisters, the medieval-art museum at the northwestern tip of ...

Early explorers were on guard against the strange and horrifying humanoids that they thought lived just beyond the known ...

By Jonn Elledge Last week, when someone told me they were working on a project about the early medieval ... the monk who (probably) wrote On the Ruin of Britain. This is a shame, as someone who ...

The discovery of 2-metre-long Buddha heads with intact features in Ratnagiri establishes that Buddhism was the predominant religion in the early medieval period ...

St. Patrick may be Ireland’s most famous saint, but a new biography for young readers sheds light on another great Irish holy ...

On the calm waters of Lough Derg in Ireland, the small Station Island is home to one of the toughest pilgrimages in the world ...

How Christianity blurred the line between celibacy and androgyny.