Dr. Dyan Elliott, the Peter B. Ritzma Professor of the Humanities and professor of history at Northwestern University, is the winner of the 26th annual prize for "The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, ...

The academic elite looks more like the medieval clergy by the day. Universities and university towns are latter-day monasteries that protect their members from contamination by hoi polloi.

Medieval New Year resolutions both a blessing and a blaspheme. ... The research shows how the Christian clergy supported agricultural superstitions but condemned what they perceived as magic rituals.

A richly adorned gold ring, lost for centuries beneath the grounds of a medieval Slovakian castle, has resurfaced, offering a rare glimpse into the spiritual and material worlds of 14th-century ...

In 1957, workmen waterproofing the vault of a derelict medieval crypt in Whithorn, Scotland, stumbled onto three stone coffins. Over the next decade, excavations at the site unearthed dozens of graves ...

The Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University announces the twenty-ninth Otto Gründler Book Prize to be awarded at the 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 8-10, 2025). It ...

Researchers digitized the faces of three medieval people: a bishop, a young woman, and a cleric with a cleft lip and palate. Per a statement, the individuals resided in the county of Wigtownshire ...