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He That Be a Pilgrim: Sacred Travel in the Middle Ages
by Linda Hill

Every medieval Christian considered heaven his ultimate goal and true home. So by the Middle Ages, thoroughfares teemed with devout (and not so devout) travelers making their way to an ever-increasing assortment of shrines and holy sites at which to have their sins absolved.

 

Safeguarding Pilgrims: The Hospitallers and Templars
by Linda Hill

 

The Relics of Chartres Cathedral
by Joelle Mellon.

 

The Mystery of St. Edmund's Corpse
by Jan Darbying

St. Edmund, King of Britain's East Anglia, was slain by Viking invaders in 870 A.D. Although the only contemporary report of his death is brief, by the following century, an elaborate legend had developed around Edmund, a legend which involves the mystical powers of his severed head and his incorrupt body.

 

Galileo and the Copernican Controversy
by David Steinsaltz

After being condemned as an unChristian superstition throughout the Middle Ages, astrology came roaring back with the revival of classical learning. Accompanying the rebirth of this ancient science, the question of the motions of the celestial bodies--and of the rotation of the earth in particular--resurfaced in full force.

 

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Forsoothly Spoken
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