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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

to resurrection.’ Similar to later depictions, this very early image shows Jesus wearing only a loincloth. In the later, medieval period, this near-nakedness is used as a sign of the suffering body.

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

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 ...

the resurrection of Christ is either depicted symbolically, through the Jonah story, or witnessed to through the miracle of Jesus's raising of Lazarus. The Early Church showed great reticence about ...

For centuries a medieval almanac has baffled historians with its confusing array of liturgical and astronomical calendars, depictions of monthly activities and figures of the zodiac. It also ...

And for the most part, the goatlike depiction doesn't show up in medieval or even Renaissance images of the devil. But by the 19th century, the idea of a horned devil with cloven hooves was firmly ...