Newly displayed 1,300-year-old doodles suggest that medieval monastic life wasn’t all about solemn chants and holy scripture. Now on view at the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street, the ...
The poor scribes of yore who were spiritual calligraphers and illuminators of Ireland's most famous book, many housed in Trinity College Dublin, the monks and scholars of Ireland. Ah, June! The sun is ...
The best location for a monastery was one that was close to water and wood. Many monastic chroniclers mention this. Orderic Vitalis, born in England near Shrewsbury in 1075 and sent to the Norman ...
Kreiner is a professor of history at the University of Georgia specializing in the early Middle Ages, and the author of The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction It’s time for ...
Pottery, animal bones, seeds, nuts, and more tell a tale of what everyday life was like in medieval times in a monastic settlement in Ireland. Armed with two-meter COVID-19 sticks, to ensure they were ...
Fourteenth century tombstone relief at a monastery built in 1009 in the Pyrenees Fourteenth century tombstone relief at a monastery built in 1009 in the PyreneesUniversal Images Group via Getty Today, ...
What do medieval monks and volcanic eruptions have in common? According to a team of researchers led by the University of Geneva, quite a bit because chronicles from the 12th and 13th century are ...
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