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 ...

There was a period of history known as the Middle Ages that had the unflattering reputation of being a very backward time of ...

The first autobiography in the English language was written by a Christian woman, Margery Kempe, who lived in the early 1400s. In the early Middle Ages, it was not uncommon for an abbess (the female ...

Somehow, we’re living in a timeline where the contents of my medieval history classes are more relevant than those of my ...

Hundreds of skeletons were recently uncovered by archaeologists while they were excavating a British university’s property – the discovery was a complete surprise. The skeletons, along with an ancient ...

Archaeologists discovered the remains of a medieval church beneath the asphalt of a parking lot. Parts of the church were likely used elsewhere in the city when it was demolished after the Reformation ...

When looking at medieval art, it is important to recognize that the objects in a modern exhibition are taken out of their original context. Unlike much of the art produced in the intervening centuries ...