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Bruegel on the Feast of Fools.

Feasting Foolishly

By Nathan Schneider | July 21, 2010

Anonymous, serious, busy modern society got you down? Well, the Middle Ages has just the remedy on hand. In the Notebook section of this month’s Harper’s, Alain de Botton has…

Stephen Higa singing "Ave Maria," photographed by Phoebe Neel.

Naked Voice

By Stephen Higa | May 20, 2010

Reflections on resurrecting medieval song.

Look into those Stark eyes.

The Crusades: Actually Not So Bad?

By Nathan Schneider | May 19, 2010

The sociologist of religion Rodney Stark is back (just in time for Medieval Week) with yet another in his always-controversial oeuvre, this time with a book about the very thing…

Photo courtesy of Heather Strait.

Hrafspa

By Eric Scott | May 17, 2010

On the 21st-century passing of a 12th-century bard.

Killing the Buddha

Welcome to Medieval Week!

By KtBniks | May 17, 2010
St. Joseph's

Medieval Music Resounds in Brooklyn

By KtBniks | May 5, 2010

Saturday, May 22nd, 2010 7:30 – 9:30 pm St. Joseph’s Catholic Church 856 Pacific Street Brooklyn, New York All are welcome, as are donations On May 22nd, at one of…

Killing the Buddha

Turn off the History Channel and Read an Article

By Nathan Schneider | April 6, 2010

Whenever I see an ad for or flip past a showing of one of those History Channel “religion” documentaries—something about Revelation or Nostradamus or the Bible Code—there arises a feeling…

Buy the book.

Have You Heard of Rashi?

By Nathan Schneider | October 8, 2009

The day my essay, “The Self-Thinking Thought,” appeared on the New York Times blog Happy Days, I received a letter that went thusly: I read your blog on Anselm; quite…

Hildegard von Bingen, bronze statue by Karl-Heinz Oswald, 1998.

Informed Worship

By Alex Rose | September 17, 2009

Saint Hildegard and the science of religious experience.