Stories retelling the birth of the Virgin Mary reveal that the Church was more forgiving of infertility than the general ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls ...

From otherworldly sites to enchanting stories, we have highlighted incredible destinations in Prague that will make you feel like you're floating on cloud nine.

It dates back to the 8th century and contains some of the oldest known medieval ... library and an essential part of Oxford University. It dates back to the 7th century and it includes the epic of ...

The imposing medieval battlements around the hilltop town just south of the city of Rome harken back to the internecine warfare common between the great Italian cities in those times. Grottaferrata ...

Ora et Labora is a monastery management game that puts you in the role of an abbot tasked with guiding a monastic community through the trials and triumphs of medieval life. Lead your monks in ...

Credit: Cambridge, University Library, Creative Commons ... to well-preserved pieces of work that inspired many scholars of the late middle ages and the early modern era. Monasteries across the ...

This episode takes you to medieval Serbia, where history lives on in remarkable buildings such as the Manasija Monastery and the Smederevo Fortress. Built by noble rulers Despot Stefan Lazarević ...

The “Dark Ages” is a misnomer. The period between Antiquity and the Renaissance, known as the Middle Ages, saw amazing advances in art, science, and philosophy. Around 1300, scholars in Europe ...

At the world’s oldest monastery ... an invisible library that may hold as-yet-unknown biblical texts, or more manuscripts that illuminate medieval monastic life in this remote outpost of ...

Students joined archaeologists in a multi-year excavation of a medieval monastery in England. Screengrab from University of Reading's Facebook post In 2021, archaeologists searching the bank of ...