Christianity

The medieval period was a golden age of saints and miracles, but they were met with a healthy dose of scepticism.

Despite the religious rupture caused by the Reformation, fear of the Apocalypse remained common to both sides of western Christendom. But older, classical ideas of an eternal return were at work, too.

An account of how belief became opinion.

How one of the greatest advances in human culture also helped divide Christendom.  

A master of the early Renaissance depicts the moment that Christians regard as the confirmation of Jesus’ divinity.

The ideas set out by Martin Luther sparked a reformation in the idea of authority itself. 

The small city of Hereford became one of England’s most important pilgrim sites due to the many miracles attributed to a local saint.

Saint Ignatius of Loyola became General of the Society of Jesus on April 19th, 1541.