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.

Review: Medieval scholar Dyan Elliott digs deep into the church's past, ... Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy. Dyan Elliott. 448 pages; University of Pennsylvania Press. $45.00.

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 ...

Archaeologists in England recently uncovered new details about a medieval mass burial of victims of bubonic plague. When the so-called Black Death swept through northern Lincolnshire during the ...