A new textbook soon to be taught in Russian schools leans on the works of a 16th-century monk. It fits a pattern of ...

Ivan’s reign led to a period known as the “Time of Troubles,” marked by famine and military defeat ... is described as a “saintly monastic order” led by a “pious tsar.” ...

The announcement “Habemus Papam” — “We have a pope” — from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica is followed first by the ...

This last choice is the most instructive. As the novelist Laurence Sterne once wrote, names exert “a strange kind of magick ...

Pope Francis died as he had lived. Simple and humble. From the streets of Argentina, where he had been born and become a ...

“As a military man,” says the younger Sukenik ... s scrolls turned out to be the Manual of Discipline of an early monastic order, and a comparison of this new document with the descriptions ...

Dozens of earls, barons and bishops attended, all with their own military followings ... France had all laid out basic rules for human society, and they were kept in written form for reference ...

Human rights groups say the breakdown of law and order in the first months after ... maintained an uneasy relationship with Egypt’s military rulers. During the 1970s, Copts suffered a wave ...