An interview with Adrian Boas

What is the “medieval”? How can we understand historical movements across the Sahara? How does religion –specifically, Islam– play a role in this project?

Hatter shows that the repertory she studies reflects a musical culture that valued intergenerational connections between artists and compositional virtuosity...

Baptismal fonts were necessary to the liturgical life of the medieval Christian...

Black guides readers through 10 pervasive fictions about medieval history...

For all of their prominence in the popular imagination today, the historical record of the Viking presence in England is limited...

How do contemporary events shape the ways in which we read, understand, and interpret historical processes of identity formation?

Prange provides a fascinating window into the Muslim world of the medieval (12-16th century) Malabar Coast and the development of Islam that was defined by significant trade networks.

Why did intellectual path of Medieval Russian culture differ so much from its counterparts in Western Europe?

As O’Callaghan details, many of the code's provisions were drawn up in response to the problems Alfonso dealt with as king...

Jones shows how the Crusades was a different event depending upon one’s perspective, be that of a Norman ruler, a Byzantine princess, or a Muslim chronicler....

How are notions of justice and equality constructed in Islamic virtue ethics (akhlaq)?

Legassie talks about medieval travel, especially long distance travel, and the way it was feared, praised, and sometimes treated with suspicion.

Why was a Crusade that was initially meant for Syria end up in Tunis?

Haug offers an in-depth look at the frontier zone of the Sassanian, Umayyad, and Abbasid Empires...

According to tradition, on the night of March 15, 1345, a Eucharistic host thrown into a burning fireplace was found intact hours later...

Is “Vedic” fire sacrifice at odds with “Hindu” image worship?

Wilken offers a revisionist history of how the ideas of freedom of conscience and freedom of religion originated in the writings of the Christian fathers of the early Church, such as Tertullian and Lactantius, during the period when Christians were a persecuted sect of the Roman Empire...

The story of the littoral nations of the Baltic Sea is like a saga, that genre perfected by those tenacious inhabitants of the rocky shores of this ancient trading corridor...

Thanks to the international tourism industry most people are familiar with the spectacular ruins of Angkor, the great Cambodian empire that lasted from about the 9th to the early 15th century...

Burchett re-examines what we assume about the rise of devotionalism in North India, tracing its flowering since India’s early medieval “Tantric Age” to present day...

How do peripheral places assert the centrality of their identity?

Gregory Smits makes extensive use of scholarship in archaeology and anthropology and leverages unconventional sources such as the Omoro sōshi(a collection of ancient songs) to present a fundamental rethinking of early Ryukyu...

Mary Magdalene’s story of conversion from sinner to saint is one of Christianity’s most compelling and controversial stories...

Guilds were prominent in medieval and early modern Europe, but their economic role has seldom been studied...