Alchemy in the Middle Ages was more than just the pursuit of gold – it was a blend of science, mysticism, and philosophy that captured the imagination of scholars across Europe. In this episode, we ...

The motto that Francis selected for his papacy, ‘looking at him with mercy, he chose him,’ was inspired by Caravaggio’s ...

The Knights Templar, a legendary monastic military order forged in the fires of the Crusades, continue to enthrall ...

It’s no secret that waistlines often expand in middle-age, but the problem isn ... RNA sequencing on samples from people of various ages, Wang and her colleagues next studied APCs from human ...

Jerusalem Demsas: In 1998, Time magazine plastered a jarring provocation across its cover: “Is Feminism Dead?” By century’s ...

Reports of feminism’s obsolescence have been greatly exaggerated. As female achievement and visibility increased in higher ...

Allegedly, copies of the Bible were chained to the walls of churches during the Middle Ages so that people could not take them home to read. Supposedly the Church during the Middle Ages also ...

In the Middle Ages, the gesture was used to mock enemies by symbolically giving them not ears but horns—a sign of foolishness or even devilry, according to a paper published in Qualitative ...

Food, in the context of the papal conclave, serves as a lens through which we can observe the Catholic Church’s deep concern ...

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Duby’s greatest problem is the nature of the evidence. If you want to know what women were like in the Middle Ages, your evidence will issue largely from the scriptoria of monasteries. And there is a ...