The Egyptians treated them with reverence and adoration having, first domesticated them 4,000 years ago. Since then the small ...

Death in the Middle Ages wasn’t just an end – it was a ... We look at how class, religion, and culture shaped the experience of dying, and why the medieval mindset around death was both ...

In the Middle Ages, people used seals to protect important ... The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily reflect those of Religion News Service.) The Conversation religion coverage ...

The Getty Center’s latest exhibition, The Fantasy of the Middle Ages, explores this historical ... was understood through the lens of religion. The exhibition pairs medieval and later imagery ...

The debate about the significance of written norms in Europe’s Early Middle Ages is characterised by a narrowing to ... This mirrors the separation of religion and politics that has been dominating ...

Today, however, a growing number of scholars are working to break down anachronistic distinctions between magic, religion and science ... life during the Middle Ages. “We see [magical practices ...

The “Dark Ages” is a misnomer. The period between Antiquity and the Renaissance, known as the Middle Ages, saw amazing advances in art, science, and philosophy. Around 1300, scholars in Europe ...

Reason and religion The names of classical medical innovators like Hippocrates and Galen were well known in the early Middle Ages, but few of their texts were in circulation prior to the 13th century.

But in the Middle Ages, Christian thinkers developed a radical idea, as the historian David Noble explains in his book The Religion of Technology. What if tech could help us restore humanity to ...

Religion served art, and art served religion, throughout the Middle Ages. But in the later centuries, with rising prosperity, secular art, art which had nothing to do with God, was becoming ...

Religion served art and art served religion throughout the Middle Ages. But in the later centuries, with rising prosperity, secular art, art which had nothing to do with God, was becoming ...

The book offers an interdisciplinary approach to a phenomenon which has been mostly neglected in learned studies concerned with the Middle Ages. The authors clarify theoretical ideas about irony ...