With dwindling numbers of people identifying as religious, many can now go their whole lives without coming into contact with a monk or a nun. But for people in the Middle Ages, this was simply ...

We all had pretzels at least once in our lives, but how many among us know they have Italian roots? Legend has it that ...

The "completely unique" gilded silver object, found in a field north of Norwich, probably belonged to a monk. Its inscription ... to Jesus Christ in the Middle Ages." The medieval Latin ...

Pretzels, the everyday staple plenty of us have tucked away in our pantries, were created by a seventh-century monk living in ...

One thinks of the Middle Ages as a time when peasants rarely moved more than a few miles from their huts or monks from their ...