The Kingdom of Thessalonica was a short-lived state that emerged during the Fourth Crusade after the sack of Constantinople ...

Imagine being a Byzantine Emperor and all of a sudden, deciding to abandon everything and become a monk in a monastery.

A few others came from inside the Holy Roman Empire but outside the bounds of modern-day Italy. German popes elected from the Empire included Gregory in 996 and Damasus II in 1048. England ...

In 1071, a small nomadic dynasty—named the Seljuks after their founder—fought a battle against Byzantine forces under the ...

Intellectual life in the modern West traces its origins to the ancient Greeks and Romans. However, by the launch of the First ...

When the cardinals gather in Rome to elect Pope Francis’s successor, two issues will weigh on their decision: the Catholic ...

"Breakspear was a young, impoverished lad from England, with no family connections, no money, and it was quite remarkable ...

During his papacy, he remained a steadfast ally of the Carolingian Empire, especially in the ... the internalized conflicts such as with Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, and headed the attempt ...

I’m a believer. Not in a higher power, but in the power of sacred spaces to move, challenge, educate and uplift me.

But when the empire collapsed, in the 5th century, church courts took over and elevated marriage to a holy union ... as incompatible with one another. A Roman politician was expelled from the ...

When Roman Egypt came under attack from the Kushites in what is now Sudan, the Roman forces responded by destroying a Kushite ...