Built using the horizontal log technique, common in eastern and northern Europe since the Middle Ages, these churches were sponsored by noble families and became status symbols. They offered an ...

the Catholic church no longer has anywhere near the political influence that it possessed in the Middle Ages. Despite this, Christians still comprise around two thirds of America’s population ...

Allegedly, copies of the Bible were chained to the walls of churches during the Middle Ages so that people could not take them home to read. Supposedly the Church during the Middle Ages also ...

Parts of the church were likely used elsewhere in the ... “Such stones were quite expensive in the Middle Ages,” Anja Rutter—the archaeologist leading the excavation—told German media ...

The stave churches constitute one of the most elaborate and technologically advanced types of wooden construction that existed in North-Western Europe during the Middle Ages. The churches were built ...

As archaeologists began excavations at the site, they unearthed at least 30 graves of infants and young children, including newborns, buried outside the church's sanctuary and in mass graves.

They have the same insulting and humiliating impact today as they did in the Middle Ages.” That’s exactly what St. Stephani Church in Calbe was hoping to do with its Judensau, which depicts a ...

Almost all of them were run by the Church. Many were monastery infirmaries ... was expected to have a doctor and surgeon. In the Middle Ages the Islamic world was far ahead in terms of hospital ...