Check if you have access via personal or institutional login In recent years there has been an increasing interest in the history of the numerous houses of monks, canons and nuns which existed in the ...

who used monasteries as a source of healthcare and support in times of need. The Church remained an important institution in England, but some of its influence had diminished.

In 2021, archaeologists searching the bank of the Thames in England stumbled upon a medieval building near a modern-day ...

However, the Church set very high standards of cleanliness, so medieval monasteries were places of good public health. close public healthThe health of the population as a whole, and methods used ...

From the Loch Ness Monster to casting spells, it didn’t take me long to embrace my inner child here. Steeped in centuries of ...

It had been one of 34 Norbertine monasteries in England before it was seized in June 1536. In the years that followed, it was used as a farm house, pub and country residence before being privately ...

To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. This book examines the relationship between the royal monasteries in tenth- and ...

It was absolutely essential to the Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon England but the documentary ... the social identity and health of the monastery's inhabitants and neighbouring populations ...

The head of an abbey on a monastic Welsh island apologised Tuesday after a review found that a monk sexually abused children over several decades “in plain sight" despite repeated complaints raised ...