Religion

Gerald Cobb explores secrets of the capital's ecclesiastical architecture.

T. Charles Edwards on the position of Catholics in Victorian England.

Christopher Dawson profiles the historical writing of "the last of the encyclopaedists".

J. Guthrie Oliver discusses a major source of funds for both medieval England and the Church.

Charles Seltman analyses the role of the darker deity in Ancient Greece. Second of a two part series. The first part can be read here.

Jean Lindsay queries the medieval path of scientific enquiry.

Sheldon van Auken on the great English historian of the Reformation.

Pilgrims were a lucrative source of income for the Church and miracles did not come free. Adrian Bell and Richard Dale discover some striking parallels with modern marketing tactics in the management of shrines in the Middle Ages.

Arthur Bryant relates how Becket’s death, at the hands of Henry II's servants, made this once worldly prelate a popular religious hero.

In the twelfth-century conflict between Church and State, Henry II found his most determined opponent in his formerly devoted servant, Thomas Becket, as Arthur Bryant continues his Story of England series.