Asceticism in Christianity as practiced for centuries can comprise an array of devotional practices from fasting to ...

She also emphasized that the mosaics, decorations, and portable icons of the church form a treasure trove of Byzantine art. In 1988, UNESCO included the city’s early Christian and Byzantine monuments ...

Hans-Josef Klauck, a towering figure in biblical studies, renowned for his extensive knowledge of early Christian literature and the Greco-Roman world, died March 27 in Munich, Germany. Klauck, the ...

Much of her research also concerns textiles, and other material culture, as it moved around the Mediterranean, in the Byzantine, Islamic and Western medieval worlds. She is a frequent lecturer at the ...