This Europe travel guide highlights ten remarkable medieval destinations where castles, fortified towns, monasteries, stone ...

I'm sitting in my living room, peering down through a virtual reality headset into a dirt pit in Khor Virap where legend says St. Gregory the Illuminator was held for 15 years before curing his captor ...

There’s something unforgettable about medieval monasteries: they weren’t just places of worship—they were fortresses of faith, libraries of knowledge, and safe havens built in the most dramatic ...

The monastic grange project at the Abbaye Sainte-Marie of Boulaur has aroused a wave of enthusiasm in the country and is already inspiring other monasteries in Europe. The community is establishing a ...

A new analysis of remains from medieval Cambridge shows that local Augustinian friars were almost twice as likely as the city's general population to be infected by intestinal parasites. This is ...

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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 ...