Newly displayed 1,300-year-old doodles suggest that medieval monastic life wasn’t all about solemn chants and holy scripture.

Medieval Institute Publications Western Michigan University Kalamazoo MI 49008-5432 USA +1 (269) 387-8755. Monastic Life and ... including sites of veneration. The series also welcomes research on ...

The French countryside is littered with medieval monasteries -- stony, quiet and atmospheric. ... St. Benedict established the first great monastic order in 529, in Italy.

The upcoming symposium, "Modes of Communication in Medieval Monasticism," explores forms of verbal and non-verbal communication in medieval monasticism. It is scheduled for this Thursday, April 22 at ...

The rhythms of the medieval monastic world turned on elaborately calligraphed perpetual calendars inscribing the months of the year, days of the month, the celestial zodiac, and the hierarchical ...

The French countryside is littered with medieval monasteries. ... St. Benedict established the first great monastic order in 529, in Italy.

An extremely rare medieval Bible has been re-discovered and returned to the cathedral it ... The Bible disappeared from the Cathedral’s collection of monastic books 500 years ago during the ...

Rare heraldic tiles were recently discovered under wooden floors at former Basilian monastery in Chełm, Poland, offering a view into 18th-century monastic life.