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Rare medieval Easter cipher is up for grabs this Holy Week
By Kathryn Post — April 5, 2023
(RNS) — When decoded, the 15th-century cipher helped calculate the date for Easter.
A restored medieval depiction of the Crusades shows how England embraced Islamic culture
By Menachem Wecker — January 10, 2023
(RNS) — Floor tiles from Chertsey Abbey in England, the subject of a new exhibition, resemble Muslim and Byzantine silks that crusaders brought back as souvenirs.
Carmen Acevedo Butcher gives medieval mysticism a Gen Z reboot
By Renée Roden — August 25, 2022
(RNS) — For Acevedo Butcher, spiritual wisdom is never far from social justice.
Notre Dame’s history is 9 centuries of change, renovation and renewal
By Maile Hutterer — April 17, 2019
(The Conversation) — The Notre-Dame de Paris had been damaged and changed many times since the mid-12th century. But the fire on April 15 might have been its most catastrophic event.
My real-life Da Vinci Code moment
By Jerome Socolovsky — March 9, 2018
(RNS) — Three years ago I discovered a strange diagram written into an ancient monastic book. (Commentary)
How the dead danced with the living in medieval society
By Ashby Kinch — October 30, 2017
(THE CONVERSATION) — What if the dead played a more active, more participatory role in our daily lives?
German Protestants officially renounce converting Jews to Christianity
By Tom Heneghan — November 17, 2016
(RNS) Abandoning the 'Judenmission,' which effectively ended in the decades after the Holocaust, should have been a formality.
How readers ‘solved’ the mystery of the prayer wheel
By David Van Biema — May 15, 2015
(RNS) We asked readers how they would say, pray or meditate what we called the Liesborn Prayer Wheel, after the abbey for which the larger book was created. Dozens of readers responded.
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