Stories retelling the birth of the Virgin Mary reveal that the Church was more forgiving of infertility than the general ...

It was performed both preventatively and, in the case of some medieval religious communities, periodically as part of monastic bodily regulation and discipline. Devoting some 25 chapters of his ...

What was life like in medieval society? Most medieval people lived in villages, as there were few large towns in the Middle Ages. The majority of people were peasants. The Church's role in ...

But medieval religious recluses weren’t overburdened modern women. They had funerals for their worldly selves; they were advised to dig their graves with their fingernails into the dirt floor of ...

The intrinsically civilizational dimension of Christianity in Europe is best captured when visiting iconic religious sites ... At the entrance to the medieval monastic complex, Father Bánk ...

Because the claim that medieval peasants worked 150 days due to the frequency of religious holidays contains information that is both true and false — at least according to many mainstream ...