Despite all appearances, this man was a monk, “Symeon the Holy Fool”. His hijinks were part of a Byzantine monastic life called salos, which intended – though critics doubted it – to ...

“It's a tranquil space for sleep. Monastic, no colour, but strong, not too polite," Rose Uniacke says of her exceedingly serene London bedroom. It's not particularly groundbreaking for us to suggest ...