The Pope was the head of the Catholic Church and lived in Rome. He set out rules and guidelines that would be put into action by church leaders and personnel across Europe. An example of such a ...
Almost all of them were run by the Church. Many were monastery infirmaries ... was expected to have a doctor and surgeon. In the Middle Ages the Islamic world was far ahead in terms of hospital ...
What kinds of books did parish churches have in the Middle Ages? From where did they get them? BOMPAC examines these poorly known but fundamental questions of medieval book history. Its primary ...
They have the same insulting and humiliating impact today as they did in the Middle Ages.” That’s exactly what St. Stephani Church in Calbe was hoping to do with its Judensau, which depicts a ...
The vicar arrived at the church 10 years ago as it started fundraising ... He explained that in the Middle Ages his predecessors "used a system of reducing pulleys, so there was miles and miles ...
The church's pastor, Johannes Block ... to leave the carving in place as a reminder of the anti-Semitism of the Middle Ages, and of the anti-Semitic features of Luther's theology, he explained.