Even in medieval times, Roman Catholic scholars did not practice an ideal of complete subordination to ecclesiastical authorities, writes Jean Porter, a professor of ethics at the University of Notre ...

The Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University announces the twenty-ninth Otto Gründler Book Prize to be awarded at the 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 14–16, 2026). It ...

Now a commander in the U. S. Naval Reserve, Samuel Eliot Morison '08, on leave of absence from his post as Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, wrote the following history of Harvard ...

Later, a man who said he was an archaeologist stumbled across the treasures and flagged them to one of the thrift shop’s ...

Pessimists often compare today's troubled America to a tottering late Rome or an insolvent and descending British Empire. But medieval Europe (roughly A.D. 500 to 1450) is the more apt comparison. The ...

Small medieval gardens, or herbers, were generally square or rectangular and surrounded by hedges or walls. Often divided into four equal sections, these gardens featured a fountain or basin in the ...