Life in the Middle Ages

 We think of medieval churches as made of stone, as indeed most of them were.  But stone churches always needed wood as well.  The scaffoldi...

 As I discussed in an earlier post , Ethiopia was predominantly Christian during the Middle Ages, with its own stories, for example, of mira...

 There were many ways for women to show their religiosity in the Middle Ages. The most obvious of course was by becoming a nun, entering a m...

 Ethiopia, in eastern Africa, has been Christian for longer than most of Europe.  The area was never part of the Roman Empire, but missionar...

 It's Saint Patrick's day! One of the most enduring stories about this late-Roman saint is that he drove the snakes out of Ireland. ...

 Recently a number of medieval scholars have started examining what are called performative acts, that is not simply that someone did someth...

 The donkey playing a harp.  Or, if you prefer, the ass playing a lyre.  It's an image you'll find carved on Romanesque churches (el...