In a time of Communist-vs.-free world tension, resurgence of non-Christian religions, exploding world population, and pervasive secularism, when Christians of all affiliations have increasingly ...

Jews, Christians, and Muslims captures the increasingly sophisticated ... block of medieval Jewish communities--in Germany and northern France during the High Middle Ages. Concentrating on the special ...

In the Middle Ages everyone, it seems, entered into some form of marriage ... This book grapples with questions of the impact of marriage symbolism on both ideas and practice in the early Christian ...

During the Middle Ages, tattoos had several functions. Some of them were used as a form of punishment for criminals. Others ...

Within medieval European Christian belief systems ... and housed out of sight for the remainder of the year. During the Middle Ages, there was a symbiotic relationship between a patronwho commissioned ...

At least, not until centuries later when the simple bread became a go-to snack for faithful Christians doing their best to ...

In the Middle Ages, the Islamic world close Islamic worldSocieties ... to the birth and life of Jesus.. For Jewish people, Christians and Muslims, Jerusalem was and still is a holy city and ...