The haute-couture house has pledged to finance work on the 12th-century Cistercian abbey, which was a major source of ...

New research suggests that women were the scribes of at least 1.1 percent of manuscripts in the Latin West between 400 and 1500 C.E.

Every book was a laborious project during the Middle Ages. And according to a first-of ... But while most books were written by monks hunched over desks in monastery scriptoriums for hours at ...

Hermits and ascetics were a familiar part of life in the Middle Ages ... about Marie which was different to other nuns and ascetics. Monks and nuns living in monasteries had to follow a ...

The nun is an expression of a phenomenon that was common among Byzantine monks in ancient times,' Adawi ... belonged to a woman likely between the ages of 30 and 60 at the time of her death.

Women contributed more extensively to Medieval manuscript production — a task usually delegated to monks — than previously ... by women during the Middle Ages, 8,000 must have survived.

Holy Week and Easter are perhaps the most important days in the Christian calendar. Many associate those celebrations with ...

In subsequent centuries, hermit monks in Egypt prayed fervently to survive hunger and the elements. The monasteries of the Middle Ages became what she called the “prayer laboratories” where ...

As such, we encourage performers of all ethnicities, gender expressions, and ages, as well as performers ... G3-G4 Ucello (FEATURE) – A former monk turned coffee connoisseur.

For centuries, the image of a monk hunched over a desk, painstakingly copying manuscripts by candlelight, has dominated our perception of scholarship in the Middle Ages ... by a nun named Birgitta.