A scientific analysis of dozens of 12th- and 13th-century books found in European monasteries reveals they were bound in ...

The monks curated a vast manuscript and book collection at the Library of Clairvaux Abbey, a site in Champagne, France, founded in 1115. The group of 12th- and 13th-century works expanded to more than ...

Medieval physicians referred to painstakingly ... In The Miller’s Tale, Chaucer describes a monk who comes a cropper while examining the stars: This guy was so busy trying to read the future ...

The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals.

Augustine continued this philosophical tradition, meeting with his fellow monks in a garden given to him by his friend Valerius. St. Benedict, the father of Western monasticism, planted a rose garden ...

Hidden in Wavertree, Monks Well is a centuries-old relic shrouded in legend. Thought to have been used by medieval monks, this ancient water source has long been a site of mystery and local folklore.

She then becomes "like a priest" to the monk, explaining to him what's wrong ... black in her body because of the sun's heat". However, medieval readers did not understand or perceive racial ...

Dominican monks began concocting herbal remedies here ... in fierce competition with the Franciscans for the loyalty of medieval Florentines in what would soon become one of Europe's wealthiest ...