Western European civilization in the medieval centuries was a time of significant development as the ascendency of the Roman Catholic Church spread Christianity

These ten essays by John Van Engen situate religion in the history of medieval Western Europe: as an unavoidable presence in everyday life, as a conceptual fram

Who can concentrate on thoughts of Scripture or philosophy and be able to endure babies crying … ? Will he put up with the constant muddle and squalor which s

St Katherine of Alexandria was one of the most popular saints in both the Orthodox and Latin Churches in the later Middle Ages, yet there has been little study

The papers reprinted here all have to do with the very varied ways in which religion made an impact upon, or was intertwined with, political and social life. Th