Demons and exorcism have been topics of discussion across many cultures and times. In Christianity’s first four centuries, exorcism became associated with marginalized or vulnerable people, providing many implications for cultural and political thinking. In this video, Dr. Jonathan Henry explains what people of the past thought about demons, the steps they took for managing problems attributed to demons, and most crucially, what all of this can tell us about people themselves. This knowledge offers a window for understanding human nature and the practical impact of abstract beliefs. 

The Life of Thecla is the first English translation, with introduction and notes, of a fifth-century writing of a popular second-century noncanonical text (the Acts of Thecla), which tells the story of a young woman who leaves behind her life and family, and risks martyrdom twice, to follow the ascetic message of the apostle Paul. The Life gives readers insight into how this popular story was reimagined centuries later, at the lively shrine to St. Thecla. Gospel Thrillers explores conspiratorial fantasies about the Bible in U.S. cultures through dozens of modern novels that invent fantastic new gospel discoveries that plunge protagonists (and readers) into a world of danger and intrigue.

Skjærvø, Prods Oktor. The Spirit of Zoroastrianism. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2011.

The Multimedia Yasna: https://muya-film.soas.hasdai.org/yasna/

Boyce, Mary. Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs…

This collaborative website is devoted to epics from across the globe, including epic narratives in theatrical dramatizations, puppetry arts, music, visual art, and film. It aims likewise to showcase websites and teaching resources developed by colleagues featuring both oral and literary epics, from the ancient world to today.

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View a page of general information, useful tools, and further resources that are useful for studying the New Testament from the vantage point of late antique and medieval history. 

Search images from 110 image databases housed at institutes, research facilities and museums on a common user interface.

Hear a podcast dealing with the history of magic, sorcery, alchemy, and witchcraft through the ages. 

View a video comparing Chaucer's Clerk's Tale and Sita's Ramayana, offered by Moira Fitzgibbons.

Click to view journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.

Find a host of curated links to medieval resources online. Also includes links to a number of late antiquity sources.

Follow links to syllabi on all eras of Jewish history. 

See a portal for PEACE, the Portal for Epigraphy, Archaeology, Conservation and Education on Jewish Funerary Culture. 

Browse a bibliographical database with thousands of entries on Syriac Christianity. 

Search and browse a large collection of Latin texts with interactive lexical helps. 

Search and browse all known Greek literary texts from antiquity to 1453 CE.

Virtually visit one of Northern Italy's great museums of ancient, medieval, and early modern history.

Search and browse Princeton's index of medieval art. 

Search and browse articles on Iranian civilization across a broad temporal and geographical range. 

These videos describe and demonstrate the use of digital resources that will aid researchers and teachers as they understand and describe geography and its social impacts in the middle ages. Many of the tools and concepts may be useful to scholars of late antiquity and global medievalism as well. 

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View a digital game centered around imagery found in medieval illuminated manuscripts.