"e;The enigmatic link between the natural and artistic beauty that is to be contemplated but ...

Ann W. Astell explores the ambiguity of the phrase 'eating beauty.' The phrase evokes the dest...

During the Silver Age of the Cistercians (the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries), pseudepigra...

Included among the sacred books of Judaism and Christianity alike, the Song of Songs does not men...

The moral value of any given emotion is decided not by what each one is in itself, but by “the...

Calling into question the common assumption that the Middle Ages produced no secondary epics, ...

Aelred, abbot of the Yorkshire Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx from 1147 to 1167, wrote six spiritua...

Hailed in Sacred Scripture as the "e;beginning of wisdom"e; (Ps 111:10), the "e;fear ...

The abbreviated Psalms commentary by Honorius Augustodunensis (ca. 1070 - ca. 1140)-a redaction o...

This collection of essays focuses on sacrifice in the context of Jewish and Christian scripture a...

A host of modern authors have portrayed Joan of Arc as a heroine. Identifying with the medieval s...

Inspired by Vatican II, which attributed a special apostolate to the laity and affirmed their cal...