Newly displayed 1,300-year-old doodles suggest that medieval monastic life wasn’t all about solemn chants and holy scripture. Now on view at the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street, the ...

Kreiner is a professor of history at the University of Georgia specializing in the early Middle Ages, and the author of The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction It’s time for ...

Editor’s Note: EWTN News In Depth correspondent Colm Flynn recently traveled to Bobbio, Italy, to share some amazing facts about an Irish saint. Below is an adapted transcribed report, printed with ...

Tianyi Wang works for the University of Cambridge. He receives funding from Chinese Scholarship Council-Cambridge Trust Scholarship. Piers Mitchell does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. When we think of eating in the medieval era, we often envision ...

Jamie Kreiner (Hist/Mus,’04) thinks a lot about thinking. Her new book, The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction, achieved a rare feat for a scholarly work: The Wall Street ...