Lezioni di Storia

Did Jesus explicitly intend to break with the Law? Yes and no. Yes, because he was executed for his harsh contestation of religious tradition and his proclamation of the kingdom of God in radical opp...

The last queen of the Ptolemaic dynasty arrives in the Urbe for the first time and stays in Caesar's villa. The history of Rome in those years intersects not only with the destinies of Egypt but also...

She is a girl, but fights like a man; she is a Christian virgin, but wears men's clothes; she feels a direct relationship with God, but does not recognize the mediation of the Church. Revered as a sa...

The well-behaved lawyer of a provincial town is a symbol of the French Revolution, its illusions, its horrors. We do not know when the uneasiness of a bourgeois soul manifested itself in an "incorrup...

Like the Catholic kings he fuses politics and religion, coming to conceive of a 'political' religion. He creates not a political community but a community of faith, inclusive toward the faithful, rut...