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The Rule of St. Augustine offered monks a firm structure for their daily lives of work and prayer, even before the mendicant ...

Is loneliness a modern epidemic as we are so often told? Did people in the past suffer similar feelings of isolation?

Scans and radiographs revealed not just the break but its consequences: dense new bone formations, signs of infection, and ...

To convey how all-encompassing the Roman Catholic Church was during the Middle Ages, the historian R.W. Southern once offered ...

The repatriation of Afghan refugees is not only devastating and dangerous. It amounts to a betrayal—one that certain Western ...

Medieval society needed workers, but not every role earned dignity. Certain jobs were unavoidable, but still left people ...

Some left writers have argued that contemporary capitalism is mutating into a form of “neofeudalism” as tech barons run amok.

Polygamy played a nuanced role in medieval society, shaped by religion, politics, and culture. In this video, we look at how it functioned across different regions, why it was embraced by some and ...

This piece is part of a series of articles covering the medieval and early modern great powers of each of Asia’s regions: ...

Uses and Abuses of Power” is a program meant to assure audiences that questions of the present have confronted people in the ...