NEW YORK (RNS) If much of life in the High Middle Ages seems foreign to us, the wheel -- along with four others like it that have survived to the present -- is a real riddle. NEW YORK (RNS) The ...

For a long time, the Lord’s Prayer (also known as Our Father) seemed like an old, outdated pair of pants to me. It didn’t really fit anymore. Pulling an old pair of pants out of my closet, I ask ...

JERUSALEMJERUSALEM — A rare Hebrew manuscript written in 14th century Germany is going on display for the first time, just before the Jewish New Year, Israel Museum officials said Wednesday. The text, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Catholic hymn, "Te Deum" -- which says, “You, God, we praise” -- has been used for centuries in Catholic worship for ...

The directions are written on 1,035-year-old vellum: “The Order of the Diagram Written Here Teaches the Return Home.” Care to play? Manhattan’s Les En­luminures Gallery, a dealer in medieval ...

Presented by an abbess to her convent of nuns, a medieval tome known as the Liesborn Gospel Book is one of the most valuable gospels on the planet. Only five copies with rare first pages are known to ...

Talking to God seems like it should be as easy as falling off a log. But often it can feel more like climbing a cliff. Even the most spiritually gifted can find their prayer dry, as we know from the ...

KALAMAZOO—A 15th century prayer book for nuns has been digitized and is now available from the medieval manuscript collections of the Special Collections and Rare Books department of University ...

On Wednesday night, the Cathedral of St. Paul led a procession around the block and as part of an ancient Roman Catholic ritual, the “Penitential Procession in Time of Mortality or Epidemic.” In a ...

A rare medieval High Holy Day illustrated and annotated prayer book sold for a record $8.3 million on Tuesday, twice its estimated low price of $4 million. The sale makes the book the most expensive ...

(JTA) — A 700-year-old Jewish prayerbook from Germany, offered for sale by a French Jewish organization to shore up its finances, sold at auction on Tuesday for $8.3 million. Known as the Luzzatto ...

NEW YORK (RNS) The directions, if a little stilted, look familiar: “The Order Of The Diagram Written Here Teaches The Return Home.” Think Parcheesi or Sorry. But then think again. The board is not ...