Religion

It is impossible to engage fruitfully with European history without some understanding of peoples' religious beliefs, argues Paul Lay.

Hugh Trevor-Roper recounts how the “Cromwellian Exiles” returned from abroad to restore the English Church's episcopal structure.

Gerald Cobb explores secrets of the capital's ecclesiastical architecture.

T. Charles Edwards on the position of Catholics in Victorian England.

Christopher Dawson profiles the historical writing of "the last of the encyclopaedists".

J. Guthrie Oliver discusses a major source of funds for both medieval England and the Church.

Charles Seltman analyses the role of the darker deity in Ancient Greece. Second of a two part series. The first part can be read here.

Jean Lindsay queries the medieval path of scientific enquiry.

Sheldon van Auken on the great English historian of the Reformation.

Pilgrims were a lucrative source of income for the Church and miracles did not come free. Adrian Bell and Richard Dale discover some striking parallels with modern marketing tactics in the management of shrines in the Middle Ages.