Ensemble Pygmalion's performances of Monteverdi's Vespers and the opera Orfeo were baroque masterpieces for a neo-baroque age ...

Images conjured by the mention of beer tend to be male-centered, but that wasn't the case for many centuries. This is the real story behind brewing beer.

Women’s empowerment is a pressing issue in the 21st century. It’s heartening to note that women’s participation has been increasing in every field in the past few decades, but it still doesn’t seem ...

The meemoir begins with the day she learned that over the course of at least nine years, she had been raped by her husband ...

As Bar Ilan University professor Joshua Berman engagingly and convincingly demonstrates in his “Echoes of Egypt” Haggadah, the process by which the Passover story took shape was as a polemic against ...

There were very few doctors in the Middle Ages. Training to be a doctor could take years of study and, at the time, there were very few universities. The main European universities in the Middle Ages ...

In Saxon and medieval times, people policed their own community. Men were arranged into groups of ten called tithings. If a crime was committed in the tithing, it was everyone's responsibility to ...

Lent is the remembrance of Christ in the desert for 40 days and 40 nights where He fasted and was tempted by the devil. Today, many Christians also celebrate the time of Lent with fasting and prayer ...