In the early Middle Ages, Irish monks transported an important collection of texts to continental Europe. Written during ...

You Need to Think Like a Medieval Monk Focusing wasn’t much easier in the time before electricity or on-demand TV. In fact, you probably have a lot in common with these super-distracted monks.

This shade matched the monks’ undyed vestments. “In medieval Europe, ... Scientists have devised a way of writing and storing messages by creating patterns of air bubbles in sheets of ice.

In “The Wandering Mind,” Jamie Kreiner observes that the modern-day distraction epidemic has revived our interest in medieval monks, “those supposed paragons of concentration,” as masters ...

When we think of medieval friars, we may well picture Robin Hood’s jolly Friar Tuck, known for his rotund figure and love of food and drink. But it turns out some of these monks were full of ...