Food for monks in the middle ages consisted of what was grown within the monastery and what could be begged from nearby towns ...

The best location for a monastery was one that was close to water and wood. Many monastic chroniclers mention this. Orderic Vitalis, born in England near Shrewsbury in 1075 and sent to the Norman ...

Have you ever heard the story of the medieval monk who tried to fly? His name was Eilmer of Malmesbury, and he was quite the guy. Around a thousand years ago, this Benedictine monk reportedly strapped ...

Newly displayed 1,300-year-old doodles suggest that medieval monastic life wasn’t all about solemn chants and holy scripture. Now on view at the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street, the ...

For the first time in nearly five centuries, Buckland Abbey in Devon will resonate once more with the sacred sounds of monastic music, thanks to research into a rare 15th-century manuscript and a ...