William Chester Jordan, the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, emeritus, and the director of the Program in Medieval ...

We simply can’t fix the Tower of Babel right now. Maybe, after the last year, we need to consider solving the problems of the ...

Time machines are fictional, but this wonderful little town in Germany makes you feel like you're transported to the past ...

A medieval Jewish cemetery was found hidden beneath ... It was the first Jewish burial ground in England and existed until Jews were expelled from England in 1290, after which the cemetery was ...

Oh, those sneaky Jews. She asked a rabbi if he was “drunk on Christian blood again”, in a sick nod to the medieval hysteria ...

Since before there even was a 'Europe', Europe has been shaped by conflict. Because of this, there is no shortage of stories ...

Richard Price plays with those resonances in his arresting if occasionally diffuse new novel, “ Lazarus Man ,” which percolates with all manner of rebirths in the wake of a building’s explosion amid a ...

A couple of weeks ago a silent procession walked through Eureka streets, dressed in mourning black. They carried a rope,  from which dangled and twirled a thousand paper children, representing the ...

Neupfarrplatz Square has a striking monument to remember a medieval synagogue destroyed by the church. Dozens of impressive spires represent centuries of turbulent religious and imperial history.