Notions of ‘Christendom’ often miss the mark – medieval Europe’s ideas about faith and power were not so simple
A painting in Rome's San Silvestro Chapel depicts Pope Sylvester I and Constantine the Great. (Wikimedia Commons)
(The Conversation) — There has never been a singular Christian perspective on how religion, power and politics ought to relate to each other – not even in medieval ‘Christendom.’
