When we think of eating in the medieval era, we often envision wooden banquet tables, goblets, elaborate salt cellars, and giant turkey legs. Banquet tables were even more adorned on Christmas, at ...

Eustace the Monk lived a life unlike any other medieval figure. After abandoning the strict discipline of the Benedictines, he plunged into crime, disguises, blackmail, and brutal retribution against ...

The best location for a monastery was one that was close to water and wood. Many monastic chroniclers mention this. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Orderic Vitalis, ...

The Medieval monk was dedicated to God, and lived a life of prayer, hard work and poverty. But are the things we think we know, really true? Terry Jones travels around Europe in an attempt to reveal ...

The Lough Kinale Book Shrine was discovered in an Irish lake in 1986. National Museum of Ireland In the early Middle Ages, Irish monks transported an important collection of texts to continental ...

Medieval society so valued constant prayer that many people made substantial donations to monasteries so that monks and nuns, largely freed from manual labor, could become "professional" pray-ers on ...