monasteries had ample access to money, and were able to obtain all different types of meat, from beef and pork to lamb.

Who was the monkiest monk of them all ... as Kreiner shows, medieval monasteries were filled with people who wanted to focus on God but couldn’t. Long before televisions or TikTok, smartphones ...

Her new book, The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks ... sleeping standing up. One monk even nailed a cucumber to the wall to deny himself the pleasure of eating it. Staying on task was often made ...

When we think of medieval friars, we may well picture Robin Hood’s jolly Friar Tuck, known for his rotund figure and love of food and drink. But it turns out some of these monks were full of ...