The Huntington has acquired a print of Jesus in the Mount of Olives that had been pasted inside its Gutenberg Bible for 400 ...

Fabián Cháirez's "La venida del Señor" featured nine paintings depicting consecrated religious in sexually charged poses, ...

The best account we have is the Life of St. Patrick by a scholar named Muirchú. This hagiography–or biography of a saint–was ...

Here are just a selection of them. Among the University’s first flood of female graduates, Helen Waddell was a respected medieval scholar, translator, poet, dramatist and novelist. Her 1965 obituary ...

Here are just a selection of them. Among the University’s first flood of female graduates, Helen Waddell was a respected medieval scholar, translator, poet, dramatist and novelist. Her 1965 obituary ...

The Ecocritical Studies Research Workshop (ESRW) is an interdisciplinary initiative connecting faculty and graduate scholars who are working on intersections ... informal presentations at our meetings ...

Scholars have flocked to Oxford since the 13th century when the first of its 39 university colleges were established. As you wander down its cobbled backstreets lined with medieval halls and ...

is an anthropologist working with the Runa of the Ecuadorian Amazon. She has a PhD in anthropology from the London School of Economics, and is the principal investigator of the LearningNatures project ...

The papal palace in Avignon, where the pope's court was based for much of the 14th century. Jean-Marc Rosier from http://www.rosier.pro/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA ...

Medieval scholars – all men – defined women’s temperament in negative terms: Women were libidinous, frivolous, unfaithful, capricious, unpredictable and easily tempted. They required ...

As the church’s notions of illicit sex and illegitimacy hardened, however, its attitudes toward women did, too. Medieval scholars – all men – defined women’s temperament in negative terms: Women were ...