In the early fourth century A.D., Rome was notorious for persecuting Christians. Yet the night before battle, Constantine ...

The Holy Roman Empire, despite the name, was Germanic, but why was it called Roman if it had nothing to do with the Romans?

An essay by Marianne Bonz describing the myriad of religious options available in the Roman Empire. Bonz is managing editor of Harvard Theological Review. She received a doctorate from Harvard ...

Italian archaeologists recently made a surprising religious discovery in an unusual location: an Ancient Roman bath complex. The Appian Way Regional Park, an urban park in Rome, announced the ...

To a historian of ancient Rome like Mary Beard, it’s always timely to talk about the empire. But her new book about the daily lives of Roman Emperors, Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World, ...

Reviewed Work: Church and State in the Later Roman Empire. The Religious Policy of Anastasius the First, 491-518 Peter Charanis Established in 1889, the Jewish Quarterly Review (JQR) is the oldest ...

Christians are coming together to celebrate their most important festival, Easter. While the arrival of the faith in England is usually associated with St Augustine's mission from Rome in AD597, its ...

Archaeologists in London have uncovered a section of Roman masonry that belongs to a nearly 2,000-year-old town hall, in what historians say is one of the most significant discoveries in the British ...

There's a funny scene in "The Life of Brian," the controversial 1979 movie from the Monty Python chaps. Brian, a Jewish zealot, played by Graham Chapman, paints "Romans go home" on the walls of ...