A new encyclopedia covering a millennium of women’s writing from across the globe challenges assumptions that medieval literature was dominated by men and could transform how we understand the past, ...
An aesthetic born on TikTok uses veils, silence and subtraction to push back against the saturation of the online gaze.
Program includes sacred and secular works for women’s voices spanning multiple centuries – Canzona Women’s Ensemble will ...
The actors play an Irish couple haunted by secrets on a holiday in Amsterdam in Polly Findlay's adaptation of Bernard ...
The musical tells the story of Bernadette Soubirous, the daughter of a poor French family in 1858, who experienced apparitions of a young woman, seemingly the Virgin Mary.
While many films contain mistaken anachronisms, deliberate usage can help provide relatability to a historical period.
The Rev. Catherine Ngina Musau, a 55-year-old mother of two, was elected in November and will be installed in June.
The bones of St Francis of Assisi, the revered medieval friar who inspired Pope Francis and generations of Christians, are going on public display for the first time. At such a critical moment in US ...
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The medieval faith the church tried to erase

The Cathars were peaceful dualist Christians who rejected church wealth, violence, and hierarchy. They allowed women to preach and lived ascetic lives. The Catholic Church declared them heretics. In ...
Pilgrims will have yet another reason to visit the hilltop Umbrian town of Assisi, as the bones of St. Francis of Assisi, the ...
From 16th-century nuns to modern masters, this collection’s focus on female figurative realists drives a $50,000 biennial boost for the next generation ...
The most sensual pictures of women sprang from Ovid's verses, the Aeneid gave Turner his longest-lasting subject matter and ...