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Chrétien de Troyes, fl. c. 1160–c. 1181, was the author of five Arthurian romances in verse (Erec et Enide, Cligés, Yvain (Le chevalier au lion), Lancelot (Le chevalier de la charrette),...

This introductory survey offers an initial overview of some of the main branches of Christian mysticism in the medieval period, broadly conceived as 500–1450. Mysticism is itself a...

The history of Christianity and of the church (and its flock) has been a rich field for scholarly endeavor almost from the time the faith became established in the 7th and 8th centuries....

The history of the pre-Conquest Church can be roughly divided into three periods. In chronological order, at the very start is Roman Christianity, which is a sort of prehistoric period,...

The prolific writer Christine de Pizan (b. c. 1364–d. c. 1431) was an innovative lyric poet, early champion of women, and political writer. Although some of her political allegories seem...

Chronicles were the major source of historical knowledge and interpretation available to medieval people and form an important and a large part of many national literatures in the Middle...

For the Christian faithful, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is and has been since the 4th century the locus of sites associated with Christ’s death and resurrection. While the religious...

Medieval numismatic scholarship is characterized by a significant local focus, owing in part to the decentralized minting of most of Europe and in part to the discipline’s origins in...

The crusading movement involved peoples of varying religious and cultural backgrounds engaged in a violent struggle that spanned several centuries and took place on three continents....

The Crusades are one of the spectaculars of historical study—a series of events so startling that they demand attention even from writers whose primary interest lies elsewhere. The whole...