In early medieval Italy, people dug canals and drained wetlands not just to farm new land, but also to manage flooding and ...

He was a monk – but far from holy. In this video, we uncover the shocking story of the so-called "Gangster Monk" of Malmesbury, a man of the cloth who turned to violence, intimidation, and even mass ...

A centuries-old mystery buried in a Finnish hillside has just taken a surprising turn. New analysis of ancient DNA has ...

The concept of loyalty, which is fidelity and absolute faith in an ideal, a set of objectives, or fanatical attachment or ...

Bannerlord is a sandbox action-RPG strategy hybrid that takes players on a journey into a fictional world of up-close and personal medieval combat on a huge scale - bigger, bloodier and more intense ...

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Nuns’ diverse experiences of monastic solitude reflect modern urban loneliness. In 1812 Lord Byron expressed the ...

The Rule of St. Augustine offered monks a firm structure for their daily lives of work and prayer, even before the mendicant ...