In colonial Latin America – called “New Spain” by European colonists – images of a white Jesus reinforced a caste system where white, Christian Europeans occupied the top tier, while those with darker ...

Holy Week and Easter are perhaps the most important days in the Christian calendar. Many associate those celebrations with ...

The University of Minnesota Twin Cities’ Center for Medieval Studies regularly offers the class, which also covers ...

In an increasingly polarised world, the arts and humanities play a key role in sustaining democracy. They foster critical thinking, open dialogue, emotional intelligence and understanding across ...

Historians answer these questions in many different manners, but the study of medieval political and legal cultures offers one of the most productive and interesting ways to tackle such questions.

Credit: Tilemahos Efthimiadis, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0. In the long and proud history of Eastern Orthodox Christian iconography ... appearance isn’t a modern artistic experiment or a medieval ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

As a result, animals turned up "in any possible context where art would be ... depicted in bestiaries: medieval encyclopedias of real and imagined creatures steeped in Christian theology.

The medieval astronomical instrument comes from ... highlight the scientific exchanges among Arab, Jewish, and Christian scholars of that era as well as shedding light on the interconnected ...

Far-right politics and Christian nationalism are on the rise in North America and Europe, leading to growing concerns about what it means for human rights and democracy. Why? Because we’ve seen ...