The 22nd of March 1144 was Holy Saturday, the day before Easter. Outside the city walls, the forester Henry de Sprowston was ...

An important social ritual in the Middle Ages, handwashing was also depicted in medieval art. In this 14th-century altarpiece from the Cathedral of Siena, Pontius Pilate washes his hands as he ...

A medieval mikveh, a bath used for ritual immersion in Judaism, in Speyer, Germany. Rudolf Ernst/iStock via Getty Images Plus ...

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Archaeologists have unearthed a hoard of gold and silver coins offered as diobolgeldæ, or “devil's money”, at a medieval cult site in the Netherlands, shedding more light on the rituals of ...

In their book “ Inventing Jewish Ritual,” anthropologists Vanessa Ochs and Riv-Ellen Prell describe how a movement among liberal Jews to engage in ritual innovation began in the 1970s.