Pernoud — for whom the term “obscurantism,” generally associated with the Middle Ages, applies much more ... Europe Correspondent for the National Catholic Register. She is French-Swiss ...

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But this pattern of behavior has been the standard for the Catholic Church since the Middle Ages. For more than a thousand years, the church has denigrated religious women when they challenged ...

One of the most unifying elements of the Medieval Period was the Roman Catholic Church ... In the latter part of the Middle Ages, the pope, as head of the church, had a huge influence over ...

The lecture series "European Catholicism in the Late Middle Ages" is a joint project between the UA's Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies and St. Philip's in the Hills Episcopal ...

This branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is America’s only museum entirely devoted to Middle Ages art and architecture ... the glories of the Catholic faith. Right at the start, there ...

Stigmas that developed in the Middle Ages, which Dr Pattenden is currently researching, are also relevant to today. He says the Roman Catholic Church has "stigmatised different forms of sexual ...