A new exhibition by the National Museum of Ireland features 17 ancient manuscripts with margin scribbles by Irish monks from ...

GTA 5 cheats: Phone it in GTA 6: Grand theft next 2021 games: This year's launches It turns out that medieval monks not only had time for a bit of fun but also fancied themselves as comedians.

Most medieval people were buried in a communal parish cemetery, naked and in a shroud. They had no tomb stone or any other evidence to tell us what lifestyle they led, or what type of house they ...

During the early medieval period, amid an era of Christian expansion, the fortress was occupied by the warrior monks, or knights, of the Order of Calatrava, Ramallo said. “Its new Christian ...

The British monks in the 10 th century, influenced by oral tradition, wrote this poem to examine what it meant that their new religion, and god was a word. “They were actually taking parts of ...

When we think of medieval f riars, 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 ...

The Cambridge team excavated a total of 19 monks from the friary grounds, as well as 25 locals buried at a nearby cemetery, all of whom died in adulthood between the 12th and 14th centuries.

Medieval monks were the bored data entry workers of their day, spending hours copying manuscripts in uncomfortable chairs and cold rooms. To keep themselves entertained, they often made little ...

We're taken to Medieval England in 1348, where a remote monastery in Yorkshire becomes the epicenter of a devastating plague that transforms the lives of the monks who inhabit it, forcing them to ...

The monks living at the remote 15th century Romanian Orthodox monastery, a pilgrimage site that sits in a valley covered in dense forest, have opened its doors to people like Svetlana who have ...

Compared with the privy — pretty fancy by medieval standards — to which monks were accustomed, ordinary people had to make do with a cesspit, a simple hole in the ground.