Christianity

Richard Cavendish marks the anniversary of the deportation of an important figure in Greek Cypriot nationalist history, on March 9th, 1956.

Douglas James explains why so many in the Christian West answered Urban II’s call to arms following the Council of Clermont in 1095.

The only Englishman ever to be Pope, Nicholas Breakspear was elected on December 4th, 1154.

Robert Carr draws uncomfortable parallels between Christianity and Nazism.

Richard Cavendish explores the papacy of Pius X, who was elected on August 4th, 1903.

James I. Robertson, Jr. looks at the man behind the legendary Confederate hero.

Pope Boniface VIII issued the papal bull Unam Sanctam, the most famous papal document of the Middle Ages, on November 18th, 1302.

The first Christian missionary to the country, Francis Xavier, departed from Japan on November 21st, 1551, having made perhaps some 2,000 converts.

P.G. Maxwell-Stuart examines the impact of early Christianity on notions of magic and definitions of witchcraft.

Stewart MacDonald introduces the humanist scholar whose writings made him one of the most significant figures of 16th-century Europe.