As a result, when most of Europe converted to Christianity during the Middle Ages, slavery declined within Europe itself. It was replaced largely by serfdom, which, though oppressive, allowed peasants ...

Medieval Christianity holds up a helpful mirror to the contemporary church. In recent decades, evangelicals studying faith in the Middle Ages have done much to recover its variety and richness. Yet a ...

The idea of "public" spectacle in the medieval period was quite different from that of the Greek and Roman world. Spectacle in the Middle Ages revolved around Christianity and the Church, consisting ...

As with much late-medieval faith, things were complex and there clearly was a hunger for a relationship with Christ, even if ...