Forget all the myths you’ve heard about the Dark Ages: medieval scholars didn’t think ... instruments that these men – many of them monks – used to explore the universe around them.

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Small medieval gardens ... either side of the river were the trees of life, which bear twelve crops of fruit in a year, one in each month, and the leaves of which are the cure for the pagans.” (Apoc.

We round up the ghost-infested paranormal hotspots to explore this spooky season, from eerie castles to village pubs with ...

Monasteries were places where monks lived. Monks devoted their lives to God and doing his work. They also provided help and support to their local community. At a time when there was no healthcare ...

Burgundy is crisscrossed with canals and dotted with farming villages and its hillsides produce the superior wines and fine ...

The medieval Latin inscription reads TE: ROGO: IVSTICIE: SOL: PIVS: ESTO: VIE / AVE MA. Figure makes medieval seal matrix unusual - coroner Medieval monks were riddled with worms, study finds ...

In northeast Scotland, six miles southwest of Elgin in Moray, stands Pluscarden Abbey, the northernmost Benedictine abbey in ...

A wayward monk known as John of Tintern had such a colourful and criminal life that Tony McAleavy felt ... This is part of the living area of the medieval abbey, now part of the basement of ...

A group of Orthodox monks in upstate New York takes the Christian imperative to care for creation more literally than most ...