One of Europe's best-preserved medieval monasteries lies in the Rheingau ... of the white and red half-timbered walls of the old library or admiring the cloister garden in bloom and the historical ...

And high in the great tower of Pantokrator Monastery, a metal library door swings open. There, deep inside the medieval fortified monastery in the Mount Athos monastic Orthodox Christian community ...

Carved right into the rock, up on a cliffside or overlooking the valley from atop a rocky promontory... In the Balkans, from ...

St. Catherine’s Monastery is the world’s oldest such institution in continuous use. Its library preserves hundreds of manuscripts collected during medieval times—classical texts, scriptures ...

KALAMAZOO—A 15th century prayer book for nuns has been digitized and is now available from the medieval manuscript collections of ... in the 15th or 16th century by Cistercian nuns in the monastery of ...

The monastery was one of many built along the Thames River, which was central to important early medieval trade routes ... according to the British Library’s Alison Hudson.

More than 8,000 books given in December by the Holy Trinity Monastery and Spiritual Center in Pikesville will soon be on the shelves of the Villa Julie College’s library. The books — including ...