For the first time in nearly five centuries, Buckland Abbey in Devon will resonate once more with the sacred sounds of ...

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Rare medieval music, discovered within a 15th-century book, will resonate through Buckland Abbey in Devon this August, ...

The discovery of rare music inside a medieval book has brought the sound of monks back to an abbey for the first time in 500 years. A performance of the “plaintive” music will be held in August at ...

A new exhibition in Dublin showcases historic manuscripts written in Irish monasteries. The show also features medieval ...

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These include early medieval objects from Meath, Westmeath, Limerick, Dublin, Donegal, and Kerry. The Lough Kinale Book Shrine is Ireland’s oldest and largest container for a sacred book.

Monk also highlights other depictions of genitalia in the tapestry that look similar to the disputed phallus. Another image for instance shows some testicles hanging beneath an axe-wielding figure.

This medieval book, kept at the Médiathèque du Grand Troyes in France, is wrapped with seal skin. Though the book's cover is now worn, it may have been much furrier in its heyday. É. Lévêque ...

This shade matched the monks’ undyed vestments. “In medieval Europe, you don’t really have anything that’s pure white,” Dr. Collins said. “It must have been quite magical.” ...

She then becomes "like a priest" to the monk, explaining to him what's wrong with his relationship with God, and quotes to him from scripture, even though she's never read the Bible.