There are at least 34 documented stories of transgender saints’ lives, three of which had widespread popularity in medieval ...

New scientific research confirms Irish provenance of manuscripts on loan from Switzerland, returning to Ireland for the first ...

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

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...

Tucked among a trove of medieval documents was Harvard Law School Manuscript 172, identified as a copy of the Magna Carta purchased in 1946.

Forbidden Rites consists of an edition of this medieval Latin text with a full commentary, including detailed analysis of the text and its contents, discussion of the historical context, translation ...

The Italian word comes from the Medieval Latin “camarlingus,” which means chamberlain. The position is currently held by Cardinal Kevin Joseph Farrell, a 77-year-old American who was born in ...

Additionally, it is written in English instead of the more traditional Latin, which means it probably ... "York's well-known for its medieval history - I think to have an extra unknown element ...

In medieval Latin this was expressed as “Jerusalem mater omnium’ (Jerusalem mother of all). In this way, Jerusalem, as mother, was associated with the universal church community as our nurturing ...

A new study reveals that female scribes played a far more significant role in medieval book production ... produced by female scribes across the Latin West (Italy, Gaul, Hispania, North Africa ...

The name may derive from the medieval Latin word, "carnelevarium," which means "to take away or remove meat," according to the History Channel. These specific customs are no longer the main ...