Researchers have determined that an ancient book with songs dedicated to Saints and Mother Mary is the oldest surviving ...

Scholars reveal that much of what we think we know about Vikings and Norse mythology is based on later reinterpretations rather than original sources.

Scholars of Scandinavian studies at the Cluster of Excellence are investigating cultural memories of pre-Christian Nordic paganism from the Middle Ages to the present day – “Brave explorers, strong ...

At the beginning of the third section of Mysteries of the Middle Ages Thomas Cahill states, “The Middle Ages are a great jumble. As I have put my manuscript together, I have sometimes felt I was not ...

In his catechesis to the 8,000 present during Wednesday's general audience, Pope Benedict XVI spoke of "the glory of the Christian Middle Ages," the Romanesque and Gothic cathedrals. He described how ...

Maurizio Ormas, Freedom and its roots. The establishment of human rights in the Church’s Pastoral from the origins to the sixteenth century, preface by R. Buttiglione Effatà, Cantalupa 2009, pp. 303.

Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue.Speculum is the oldest U.S. journal devoted exclusively to the Middle Ages. The chronological boundaries of the medieval ...