Gingerbread is an holiday staple that's been around for centuries. It also happened to include a rather surprising ingredient ...

Throughout the Middle Ages, the number of female readers was far greater than is commonly assumed. D. H. Green shows that, after clerics and monks, religious women were the main bearers of written ...

The church actually sponsored some of the most beautiful and radical art that emerged in the Middle Ages. A lot of these ...

They were also quite easy places to raid as the unarmed monks didn’t put up much of ... from the time of Saint Patrick until the Middle Ages. Unlike the rest of the population who generally ...

The "completely unique" gilded silver object, found in a field north of Norwich, probably belonged to a monk. Its inscription ... to Jesus Christ in the Middle Ages." The medieval Latin ...

This was a very large room and by the 14th century was divided into cubicles, with curtains to ensure privacy. Only some of the monks actually slept here, as many had private quarters. No fire was ...

A trappist monk on a remote Welsh island has confessed to sending naked photographs to a mother of two. Brother Titus Keet, 76, admitted to The Mail on Sunday that he has 200 pictures of himself ...

We round up the ghost-infested paranormal hotspots to explore this spooky season, from eerie castles to village pubs with ...

Pretzels, the everyday staple plenty of us have tucked away in our pantries, were created by a seventh-century monk living in ...

Jack Kelly covers career growth, job market and workplace trends. Monk mode—inspired by the disciplined lifestyle of monks—refers to intense periods of uninterrupted ... [+] focus to optimize ...

Monks Cross Used Cars are a specialist used car dealer based behind John Lewis at Monks Cross York, 5 minutes from the A64. Monks Cross Used Cars go the extra mile so you can go the extra miles. We ...

Not far from the ancient ruins of Angkor Wat, a group of saffron-robed monks have been learning some ... "Cambodia is on a fast track to really become middle-income by 2030, and high-income ...