What is most significant is that the particular tradition of ‘Mothering Sunday’ – as found in the UK, Ireland and some ...

The gestures adopted by many of these figures belong to a common visual culture in the art and drama of the medieval church. The iconography, which reflects a Gothic Mannerist style of the early ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a remarkable 4th-century octagonal church in Armenia, shedding light on the nation's early Christian ... The nearby medieval monastery of Khor Virap stands as a ...

it was often extended to anyone who was connected to the Church. To claim ‘benefit of the clergy’, an individual had to read a verse from Psalm 51 in the Bible. In medieval England it was only ...

In medieval and early modern Europe, the “feeling heart”—the heart ... The essays in this collection seek to shed light on various aspects of the church's role in late Byzantine society, especially on ...

What kinds of books did parish churches have in the Middle Ages? From where did they get them? BOMPAC examines these poorly known but fundamental questions of medieval book history. Its primary ...