Religion

Tim Black seeks to understand the origins of antisemitism, looking beyond the Holocaust to the ancient Middle East and medieval Europe.

The first pope to call himself ‘servant of the servants of God’ died on March 12th, 604.

The Hampton Court Conference opened on January 14th, 1604. The most important product of the conference was the King James Bible.

Anubha Charan describes the arguments surrounding one of the world’s most politically explosive excavations.

Robert Carr draws uncomfortable parallels between Christianity and Nazism.

Merle Ricklefs seeks clues for the future of the troubled archipelago nation in its distant past.

Corinne Atkins examines the events in Iraq in the 7th century AD, which precipitated the first and only great division of Islam, the ramifications of which are seen today in Iraq and more widely.

Bernard Porter points out similarities and contrasts between terrorism then and now.

Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, died on October 9th, 1253, at his favourite manor house at Buckden in Huntingdonshire.

To what extent did Christians support Hitler, and for what reasons?