The year is A.D. 1565 and the tiny island fortress of Malta, defended by an anachronistic crusadi...

Daughter of a noble Roman family, Agnella had heard tell of the vain beliefs and foul practices o...

Saint Ambrose of Milan is one of the towering figures of the late 4th century AD. A high official...

When Commodore George Dewey's Asiatic Squadron sailed into Manila Bay on May 1, 1898 to defeat th...

The year is AD 504. The all-powerfulRoman Empire lies in tatters, its western provinces dismember...

Three hundred and thirty-two years after her death, Kateri Tekakwitha has become recognized as a ...

The fourth and fifth centuries AD were an era of intense political and spiritual turmoil in the R...

Her Frankish mother dead, 17-year-old Aemilia arrives at Soissons in Roman Gaul in search of her ...

'Jesus never existed.''The Bible is a book of fairy tales.''Accounts of Christian persecution are...

His tremendous victory over the Persians at the Battle of Daras wins Belisarius the adulation of ...

In the mid-16th century AD, Christianity arrived in Japan. Heralded by daring Jesuits from Spain ...

Books for students about the history of western nations are everywhere. Less prevalent are those ...