The regime at Our Lady of Silence will be removed from the austerities of La Trappe. The rules on diet, work and silence ...

But how and what did medieval monks eat at Christmas? Because they had a relatively uninspired regular diet, they looked with anticipation to the meal they would eat on Christmas day. The typical ...

Figure makes medieval seal matrix unusual - coroner Medieval monks were riddled with worms, study finds Detectorist 'over the moon' as cross fetches £12k The 24.6mm (0.9in) seal, which dates to ...

For her own part and, “rather than dividing the narrative between female and male religious”, she has attempted “to include women in the greater narrative of medieval Irish monasticism in ...

Medieval monks "appear to have been riddled with parasites" despite having access to hand-washing facilities and latrine blocks, a study has found. The discovery was made during an analysis of ...