I'm a historian of the medieval papacy and editor of the forthcoming three volumes of the Cambridge History of the Papacy. So ...

In addition to “internal” pressures, a pattern emerged of mobs sacking the goods of the dead pope – sometimes including the ...

Papal elections aren't always as dramatic as "Conclave," a new film starring Ralph Fiennes, but the history behind the process is.

In the film “Conclave,” the costume designer Lisy Christl clothed an army of catty cardinals, from their miters down to their ...