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, ...

In the latter part of the Middle Ages, the pope, as head of the church, had a huge influence over the monarchy and total control of the clergy. In this video, medieval historian Dr Eleanor Janega ...

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.

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 ...