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

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

Kreiner is a professor of history at the University of Georgia specializing in the early Middle Ages, and the author of The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction It’s ...

Rare music is set to be played at a Devon abbey for the first time in almost 500 years after it was found in a medieval book.

How Pink Floyd inspired research into medieval monks and ... Given that the Book of Revelations in the Bible warns of a blood-red moon appearing in the end times, medieval monks tended to take ...

Jamie Kreiner (Hist/Mus,’04) thinks a lot about thinking. Her new book, The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction, achieved a rare feat for a scholarly work: The Wall Street ...

By observing the night sky, medieval monks accidentally recorded some of history’s largest volcanic eruptions.

Medieval monks were ‘riddled with parasites’ from farming with own poop: study By . Hannah Sparks. Published Aug. 18, 2022. ... This story has been shared 101,344 times. 101,344.

By observing the night sky, medieval monks unwittingly recorded some of history's largest volcanic eruptions. An international team of researchers, led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), drew on ...

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 ...