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Similarly, it is silly to claim that no one has ever encountered a demon. Consider, if you will, the extensive literature on demonic possession, a supposedly medieval phenomenon that has shown remarkable legs in our disenchanted world. (It’s worth noting that The Exorcist was based on a...
What Sister Joan and other nuns recall is being lesser members of the church in the most male-dominated institution in the Western world, a lack of standing that would eventually drive thousands of nuns away and keep new ones from joining. Priests were kings. While nuns lived communally, the...
In medieval Germany, debtors were locked up in a tower in the center of town, so their neighbors could witness their disgrace. More recently, executives declaring bankruptcy traditionally wore a black suit symbolizing the death of their firm. Following the insolvency declaration by the German broadcaster KirchMedia last week, founder...
It was a week of somber pomp and ceremony: of solemn procession and visibly saddened royals; of effusive speeches from black-suited parliamentarians and flowery messsages from the public on cellophane-wrapped bouquets; of long lines filing past the coffin lying in state in the magnificent medieval Westminster Hall. Britain...
My favorite is the Zamoskvoreche, literally the area across the Moscow River - from the Kremlin, that is. It's a slightly rundown district of old churches, 18th century noble residences and the odd basement "intellectual bookstore," but it can be full of fascinating little finds, like a lovely white stone...