When we think of eating in the medieval era, we often envision wooden banquet tables, goblets, elaborate salt cellars, and giant turkey legs. Banquet tables were even more adorned on Christmas, at ...
Discover the story of Westminster Abbey’s Benedictine monastery, from the arrival of the first twelve monks in 960 AD to its dramatic dissolution under Henry VIII in 1540. On this 90-minute journey ...
In northeast Scotland, six miles southwest of Elgin in Moray, stands Pluscarden Abbey, the northernmost Benedictine abbey in the world. Within its medieval walls, a community of some 15 Catholic monks ...
CHEYENNE - In the remote mountain peaks of northwestern Wyoming, a rare new Roman Catholic monastery is drawing young men with promises of a Spartan life of prayer and meditation, following traditions ...
MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — 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 enclose a ...
Archaeologists in Germany have uncovered a handful of 500-year-old gold coins buried among the ruins of a medieval monastery. Known as Himmelpforten, the Augustinian Hermit monastery housed monks from ...
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Hear the long-lost chants of English monks whose monasteries were dissolved by Henry VIII
In the 16th century, England’s Henry VIII broke with the pope, established the Church of England and named himself ...
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