Many of them indeed ate no more than was necessary to stay alive, mortifying the body to purify the soul. One Theodosius, a Palestinian monk, scolded a follower, who was to accompany him on his annual ...

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 ...

It is unclear not only how these numbers were compiled but also whether they apply to the early, high, or late Middle Ages, to a certain location, or to a specific socioeconomic group. Monks and nuns ...

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 ...

Benedictine monks from the Pembrokeshire coast occupied the Island in the middle ages, but its modern transformation began in the early 20th Century. Aelred Carlyle, who called himself "druid ...

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

It is not surprising that during the Middle Ages a flourishing reading culture could be found in the monasteries. Not only were monasteries repositories for all sorts of texts, but monks’ and nuns’ ...