Eustace began life as a monk but quickly abandoned the strict discipline of monastic life. His story takes a dramatic turn as ...

Compared to the hard life of a medieval peasant the life of a monk must have been a doddle. Right? Well, no not really. Religion was at the heart of medieval life, and as it spread across Europe the ...

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 ...

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 ...