Medieval Christianity Blog

  The Madaba Map is a great mosaic floor representing the Christian cities of the Middle East before the islamization, a sort of picture of the area from Mediterranean to Arabic Desert, from Lebanon to Nile’s delta at the end of 6th century CE. The land promised...

Can we speak of Christian Middle Ages? Of an age so deeply oriented in a religious sense as to assume its connotation in a prevalent way? The question has always been posed: the very effort to answer has helped to define that Age, highlighting both its contours and...

La resilienza è la capacità di risalire, di riemergere alla vita e alla luce dopo essere scomparsi, affogati, inghiottiti in un gorgo di dolore, paura, disperazione. In psicologia è l'insieme dei meccanismi che permette a un individuo di rinascere dopo un lutto, una...

The burning of a heretic, the dismemberment of an apostate’s body, the flogging of a woman in a town square, the pogrom of a whole community, a liturgy around the walls of a city before a siege, the ritual bathing of crusaders in the Jordan river after the conquest of...