In his 1905 book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber famously argued that Protestant ideas had inadvertently paved the way for the rational, market-oriented ethos that ...

The Reformation was one of the most cataclysmic events in British history. Discover how old values were turned upside down as Henry VIII took over powers once held by the Church. Page 1 of 10 In 1534, ...

As the current teaching of history emphasizes, secular factors—indeed, an extraordinary conjunction of mundane circumstances—played a great part in bringing about the Reformation. But all these ...

We've inherited an unhealthy, puritan attitude to food and sensory pleasure, says Tom Hodgkinson. Taking a leaf out of the books of our medieval ancestors would do us all good... I am often accused by ...

Franciscan Studies is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal published by the Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University. It deals with Franciscan matters: history, philosophy, theology, and art.

The Swansea Altarpiece gives a rare glimpse into the lost world of pre-Reformation England, when the churches were ablaze with colour, and images were used to tell Biblical stories. The 15th-century ...

Catholics prayed together in the Pre-Reformation English form of the Roman Rite familiar to St. Thomas More and his contemporaries. More than 700 Catholics packed St. Patrick’s Church on Feb. 1 to ...

The 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, a signal event in the history of Western civilization, will be marked on Oct. 31, 2017. A year-long commemoration began on Oct. 31, 2016, spawning ...