What you think you know about the “Dark Ages” is probably wrong. An early 14th century painting shows Pontius Pilate, the Roman official who ordered Jesus’ crucifixion, washing his hands.

The outdated concept of the European “Dark Ages” masks the parallel and interconnected developments across medieval Africa. ... Massachusetts and Roxbury Presbyterian Church in Roxbury, Mass.

The “Dark Ages” is a misnomer. The period between Antiquity and the Renaissance, known as the Middle Ages, saw amazing advances in art, science, and philosophy. Around 1300, scholars in Europe ...

The Dark Ages. A new danger threatened when the Empire’s resistance to the barbarian hordes from the East finally crumbled. In the fifth century the Goths sacked the Eternal City; Visigoths ...

As the demographic heart of Catholicism continues shifting toward the global South, many observers are asking whether the era of European leadership in the Church is drawing to a close.