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Forget all the myths you’ve heard about the Dark Ages: medieval scholars didn’t think ... instruments that these men – many of them monks – used to explore the universe around them.

Burgundy is crisscrossed with canals and dotted with farming villages and its hillsides produce the superior wines and fine ...

Take the simplicity and spareness of a monastic cell, but make it luxe with tactile, comfortable materials. No really, a luxe ...

In northeast Scotland, six miles southwest of Elgin in Moray, stands Pluscarden Abbey, the northernmost Benedictine abbey in ...

A wayward monk known as John of Tintern had such a colourful and criminal life that Tony McAleavy felt ... This is part of the living area of the medieval abbey, now part of the basement of ...

After he and his fellow monks sang morning prayers in their church nestled in a forest, Brother Luke walked back to his ...

Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (essay collections ... a ceremony which stood at the centre of monastic life in this period. They display how this largely neglected genre discloses ...

Since the photographer’s death, in 1987, the only book he published in his lifetime has attained the status of a classic.

Figure makes medieval seal matrix unusual - coroner Medieval monks were riddled with worms ... with a huge loss of life. The find is the subject of a coroner's inquest.

Medieval monks and the powerful dukes of Burgundy laid the groundwork that established this town’s prosperity. (The monks cultivated wine, while the dukes cultivated wealth.) Life here still ...