Since the Middle Ages, the Holy See has positioned itself as the preeminent mediator for international conflicts regardless ...

It was thought that disabled people were looked down upon in the Middle Ages, but a new discovery disputes that belief.

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A 600-year-old brass seal found in a farmer’s field features an image of St. Catherine of Alexandria. The depiction is chock ...

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The skeleton of a man with a severe dislocated fracture of the knee, found in a cemetery in Lund, southern Sweden, is helping ...

In the Middle Ages, disability was often viewed as punishment ... as well as his burial spot on a high hill under the church, would indicate that he was an elite member of the society and ...

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