What happens when a continent is torn apart by a hundred years of war, while another flourishes with trade, innovation, and ...

A 700-year-old fresco discovered in the convent church of S. Antonio in Polesine in Ferrara, Italy, reveals that luxurious ...

For centuries, the Catholic Church straddled the world of medieval Europe. Every king, queen, knight, serf and soldier lived and died within the embrace of the Catholic faith. The church was not ...

Christians in medieval Europe admired Islamic art without fully realizing ... In the 13th century, it was common for banners ...

Hundreds of fragments of a medieval stained glass window have been returned to a Lincolnshire church after nearly 80 years. The 14th Century window from St Andrew's Church in Heckington was ...

He set out rules and guidelines that would be put into action by church leaders and personnel across Europe. An example of such a dispute occurred between King Henry II and Archbishop Thomas Becket.

A 700-year-old fresco discovered on the wall of a convent church in northern Italy suggests that luxurious Islamic tents were used to cover altars in medieval European churches. The World’s Sarah ...

A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars ...