Century England, a dark-skinned saint with a promiscuous past became a boundary-breaking cultural and religious icon. A new ...

In 11th-century England, a saint with an extremely dissolute past became a cultural and religious symbol that broke ...

Just as Saint Mary defied religious establishment norms ... conceptions of Christian piety as white. That tells us medieval people in England were open to models of sanctity that weren"t white ...

While traditional religious practices may be on the decline, pilgrimages — meditative, multi-day hikes — are experiencing a ...

The towering castles that dot England’s landscape symbolize power, conquest, and control. For centuries, they have been viewed as monuments to the Norman elite who reshaped the country after 1066.

Norwich was once home to dozens of anchorites, or religious recluses. I spent a day in the cell of its most famous to ...

Aethelred failed to prepare for the Viking raids and invasions that would later bring Cnut to the throne of England, forging ...

I personally find it apt to remember that England expelled its Jewish population in 1290, and the complicated history of settlement in the preceding decades, because it adds nuance to our ...

Based on Hilary Mantel's novel "The Mirror & the Light," the last installment in the acclaimed television series chronicles ...

I n 2005, the late conservative writer Lawrence Auster published a response to one of his critics. The critic argued that ...

A medieval illuminated manuscript ... Bar Convent, England's oldest surviving Catholic convent, has long been a guardian of religious artifacts, many of which were entrusted to the sisters ...