While just steps away, this bearded Christ is the standard medieval ... In the Roman Catholic church. And in its monumental art and architecture. Grandeur that would inspire Europe for centuries ...

"Goody, who had done extensive fieldwork in Africa, argued that the Western Christian Church, the branch of Christianity that eventually evolved into the Roman Catholic Church, had transformed ...

The roots of that Western mind-set go back roughly 1,500 years when a branch of Christianity that later evolved into the Roman Catholic Church swept across Europe and beyond, report human ...

The policies of the medieval ... within Europe. Exposure was measured by how many years the Western Church held sway in a region. For example, in A.D. 1054, when the Roman Catholic Church and ...

War and religion, two constants of life during the Middle Ages and early Renaissance, are the subjects of a new permanent exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago offering visitors a look at more ...

To convey how all-encompassing the Roman Catholic Church was during the Middle Ages, the historian R.W. Southern once offered a striking analogy: The medieval ... of Europe. He did not imagine ...

Yes, Rome fell, but its spirit lived on in the Latin language, in laws and literature, in the Roman Catholic Church, and in its monumental art and architecture, grandeur that would inspire Europe ...