For illustrators in medieval Europe, depicting animals like elephants that they’d never set eyes on was a key part of their task to shape the morality of humankind. What mattered most was what ...

The book is the fruit of twenty trips abroad spanning fifteen years of research, which began when Crossan noticed that the Eastern Orthodox depictions of the resurrection differed from their ...

Epic snail-on-knight combat showed up as often in medieval manuscripts as Kilroy across Europe. “But the ubiquity of these depictions ... scene could represent the Resurrection, or it could ...

A 600-year-old brass seal found in a farmer’s field features an image of St. Catherine of Alexandria. The depiction is chock ...

The birth of Christ is strictly tied in with the Passion and the Resurrection of Christ as the ... The composition, based on medieval representations creates a unified depiction of the Annunciation on ...

In Blood: Medieval/Modern, the colour photograph is contrasted with medieval depictions of Saint Veronica holding what is known as the Sudarium, a miraculous image of Christ revealed from the ...

However, the neck device was not the only contraption installed to safeguard against the alleged vampire’s resurrection ... of vampires was also rampant in medieval Europe, sometimes leading ...

death and resurrection, we are honored to feature this sacred art from around the world," said Dr. Bobby Duke, chief curatorial officer at Museum of the Bible. "These depictions focus on one of ...

Early depictions of the afterlife in ancient Greece ... damned suffered torturous and unending punishment. Even after the resurrection of the dead at the end of the world, the wicked would ...