The arts and spiritual life share a profound and ancient bond. From prehistoric cave paintings to the soaring cathedrals of ...

In the Middle Ages, color signaled status, wealth, and morality. Certain dyes were expensive and restricted to elites. Laws controlled who could wear specific colors. Religious meaning shaped color ...

The 20-centimeter glass phallus, dating from the 16th or 17th century, was discovered in a two-meter-deep latrine shaft connected to the living quarters of a noblewomen's religious house in Herford.

The warming house at Rievaulx is next to the refectory, and was altered quite substantially over the period from the 12th to ...

It is a unique spiritual formation that embeds theological, existential and philosophical concerns that serve as a source of ...

New UChicago Divinity School course uses religious texts and popular sci-fi to shed light on what it means to be human ...

The circumstances surrounding the hoard's concealment point definitively to one of medieval Europe's most traumatic events. Archaeological evidence indicates the treasure was hidden during the ...

Inspiration came instead from two powerful forces: one was her own status as a newly-50 empty nester, when she decided it was time to try to write fiction.

In 1947 the Vatican spoke bluntly to modern artists presuming to handle medieval religious themes. In the encyclical Mediator Dei, Pope Pius XII warned that “he wanders from the right path … who ...

Medieval Christians drawing boundaries around ancient Israelite tribes on Holy Land maps had no idea they were influencing how later mapmakers would depict political power. Those red ink lines, meant ...

Installation view of Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages at The Met Cloisters showing a sculpture of Saint Sebastian (Northern Europe, late 15th century) (all photos Emma ...

At the Met Cloisters in Manhattan, paintings, statuettes and other objects demonstrate that human desire transcends time and cultures. The fictional tale of Phyllis and Aristotle, in which she gets ...