Religion

William Chester Jordan’s study of one of medieval Europe’s great monastic rivalries suggests that social mobility may have been more common in the Middle Ages than historians previously thought.

Kathryn Hadley examines the life and enduring influence of the French theologian 500 years after his birth.

Whether a museum or mosque, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia has been a monument to selective readings of Turkey’s history.

Was Nero the Antichrist? The bestial image of the Roman emperor as the enemy of Christians persists, but the truth is more complex.

Views of the afterlife in early Christianity.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was one of the earliest establishment figures to denounce the Nazi regime. In April 1945, his quiet resistance led him to the scaffold.

The cultural politics of papal Rome.

Tracing Karl Marx’s Jewish ancestry.

Intending to convert souls rather than punish them, the Jesuits were vital collaborators in the early modern Roman Inquisition.

In the Victorian countryside, what did going to church on Sundays actually mean?