Catholicism

Benedict of Nursia's monasteries saved classical knowledge and built Western civilization's infrastructure through the Dark Ages with principles that remain vital today.

A lighthearted exploration of Isidore of Seville, whose love of collecting knowledge made him an unlikely patron of computer programmers and a quiet hero of shared memory.

A Byzantine monk defends the living possibility of sainthood against a community losing faith in its own highest aspirations.

A reluctant 13th century archbishop uses the authority of a life lived with integrity to defend Magna Carta --- and changes the course of history without knowing it.

A monk, an elephant, and the medieval chronicle tradition that built the historical record we still rely on today.

Elizabeth of Portugal twice rode between armies to stop wars --- and died of the effort. Harmonia asks what made that possible, and what we've lost.

Harmonia steps into the quiet cell of Julian of Norwich-a medieval anchoress who lived through plague, famine, war and more

Girolamo Savonarola rose as a fierce moral voice in an anxious city.