The Catholic Conundrum
Despite persecution, Catholics survived in Protestant England. For the authorities, they were a problem with a silver lining.
Religion
Age of Doubt: Saints and Sceptics
The medieval period was a golden age of saints and miracles, but they were met with a healthy dose of scepticism.
Gone But Not Forgotten
The Dissolution of the Monasteries is a well-worn tale. Are we getting the whole story?
Confess Your Sins
In 17th-century Tuscany and Malta some women were able to hold their abusers, members of the clergy, to account.
No Grand Plan
The dissolution of the monasteries as a series of decisions and indecisions.
Bad with the Good
The history of England’s Jewish community in a period of revolution.
The Nandi Bull
Two Hindu gods discover an abandoned child while following the wind’s path.
The Theology of Chocolate
The introduction of chocolate to the Catholic world caused a dilemma: could it be eaten? Should it be given up for Lent?
Jerusalem Burning
When Roman forces burned the Temple in Jerusalem in AD 70, the Flavian dynasty thought it had defeated the Jewish god in the name of Jupiter. It was mistaken.
Playing Saints
Unmasking an audacious saintly fraud in early modern Naples.