Worship in Medieval and Early Modern Europe offers readers a chance to understand better the societal and confessional norms that motivated late medieval and early modern Christians to maintain or ...

“There was no such thing as reproductive freedom for poor women in early modern Catholic Europe.” A new article in the Journal of Modern History examines several facets of “reproductive unfreedom” in ...

Kathy Stuart, UC Davis professor of history, in her office on campus with a Marian globe icon and other objects that illustrate some of her research. She has written a book that inspired a period film ...

Pamela H. Smith during a blacksmithing course at the West Dean College of Arts and Conservation in West Sussex, UK, 2004 (all images courtesy the University of Chicago Press) Skill, kunst ("art"), and ...

New evidence that bows and arrows were used by early modern humans in Europe 54,000 years ago has strengthened the idea that such projectile technology might have given early modern humans an edge ...

Blondie taught us about the dangers of having a heart of glass, but for some people, that wasn’t a metaphorical problem. King Charles VI of France (1368-1422) literally believed he was made of glass.

Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Katherine Dauge-Roth has coedited a collection of essays examining this relatively new area of academic study. The book’s ten essays examine ...

From Lebanese politicians in Argentina to Iraqi immigrants in Sweden, Middle Eastern Christians can be found today scattered across the entire world. Too often, however, this global migration has been ...