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The Great Paradox of Medieval Monasticism, Benedictine Byzantium, Priests in Hell, Overcoming Sloth, and More Great Links!
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The supernatural beliefs of medieval people – from elves and fairies to abductions and the undead
Melusine was half-human, half-serpent and was both beautiful and powerful. She brought prosperity and numerous sons to her ...
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Walk the 22-mile Tóchar Phádraig in the footsteps of royal subjects, saints, and medieval pilgrims
This path was abandoned for 400 years but was revitalised and reopened thanks to a clever priest and 64 obliging landowners ...
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The Church Under the Tang Dynasty: A Forgotten Outpost of Christianity
During the next century, Christians perished in China completely. With the fall of the Tang Dynasty in 907, China once again ...
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Fairies, Elves, And Sirens Were Just Some Of The Supernatural Creatures In Medieval Stories, And The Belief In These Phenomena Shaped Life During The Middle Ages
Back in the Middle Ages, people had a supernatural explanation for almost everything. In their minds, spirits lurked in every ...
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A call for Catholics and Protestants to receive Communion—side by side
Why can't Catholics and Protestants share the experience of partaking in the Eucharist each according to their tradition?
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Iron Age woman was buried with a knife stuck into her grave. Archaeologists aren't sure why.
At an Iron Age cemetery in Sweden, archaeologists discovered an unusual grave of a woman interred with an iron folding knife ...
The timeless English landscape under threat from Net Zero
The view from the top of the tower of St James’s church in Louth, on the eastern edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds, is breathtaking. Above soars the highest spire on any medieval parish church in England ...
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'A history in stained glass'
Displayed in a great hall in a building in downtown Rochester, a three-column work of stained glass—considered one of the finest in the country—depicts 2,000 years of medical history in 12 panels.