Plans have been approved to house an art gallery and shop in a medieval gateway in York's city walls. City of York Council approved an application from artist Andrew Winn to convert the Micklegate Bar ...

Monks were even required by religious rule to bathe several times a year — which, for the Middle Ages, was a sign of regular ...

Bellister Castle in Northumberland, England, is hitting the market for about $3.34 million, but there's a catch. It's a National Trust lease ending in 2145, not a traditional sale.

How Mediterranean Monk Seals Became Vulnerable As the Marine Mammal Commission, an independent agency of the US Government details, the Mediterranean monk seal is the world’s rarest seal species, with ...

This isn’t your average monk story. At Malmesbury Abbey, one man of the cloth gained a dark reputation—as a violent, vengeful ...

Modern life bombards us with constant stimulation, endless notifications, and perpetual noise. When one individual decided to embrace monastic living for seven consecutive days, he discovered profound ...

Southern Europe is a living museum of stone, a sun-soaked land where time has learned to move slowly, and history lingers in ...

Curator Earle Havens shares highlights from Johns Hopkins' collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts—and his team's ...

With deeply-spiritual origins, and an important function in the religious framework of medieval England, Coventry's medieval Charterhouse priory was all but destroyed in the Reformation. But now, this ...

Life in a medieval village was surely no fairytale. Hard work, poverty, uncertainty of life and its comforts, the iron fist of the feudal lord - the disadvantages were numerous, and benefits few and ...