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

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 ...

A University of Cambridge study has determined that most monks were "riddled with parasites," even more than commoners, despite their advanced technologies and wealth.

Rare heraldic tiles were recently discovered under wooden floors at former Basilian monastery in Chełm, Poland, offering a ...

For most of the year, medieval monks ate a very drab diet, ... Come Christmas, however, the monastery table looked remarkably ...

Research examining traces of parasites in medieval Cambridge residents suggests that monks were almost twice as likely as ordinary townspeople to have intestinal worms -- despite monasteries of ...

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 ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls ...

In the middle ages, monks, nuns, and friars had it relatively easy. ... Nevertheless, not all those buried in the cemetery of a monastery or nunnery had actually lived there.