The program, titled “Saltwinds and Spice” and curated by Alkemie member Tracy Cowart, drew from the Cyprus Codex, one of the ...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. - A university professor from Allentown, inspired by a centuries-old tale out of Iceland, took his yearly music video project to epic proportions. It's not unusual for Barry Atticks to ...

Jan Zizka, a beloved 15th century Czech folk hero, looms large in the nation’s collective consciousness, a skilled, ingenious, one-eyed warrior who led peasants and rebels into battles that he never ...

One of the liveliest off-Broadway hits in Manhattan last week was a 12th century music-drama with a 20th century box office sparkle. The drama: The Play of Daniel, which used to be performed annually ...

In the third book of Otia Imperialia (c. 1211), Gervase of Tilbury describes numerous wonders, among them an English belief regarding the Grant, a sparkling-eyed entity shaped like a bipedal foal, ...

Ireland is full of historical sites, from a medieval Irish inn located in Kilkenny to a neolithic tomb that's Ireland's "answer to the Pyramids." While most tourists dive head-first into touristy ...

Catholics don't argue about abortion or the death penalty nearly as much as they argue about what music is sung (or not sung, or used to be sung) at their local Sunday Mass. It was ever thus -- at ...