Excavation in Cumbria has revealed Britain’s largest Viking building, offering a glimpse into 10th-century Norse settlements.

Their cloistered lifestyle of ora et labora—prayer and work—looks little changed from medieval ... that the monks’ benevolent example influences everything from how she interacts with customers to how ...

This clock is a digital representation of an ancient numeral system used by 13th century Cistercian monks before the Indo-Arabic system that we know and love today took over. It’s a compact ...

Cistercian monks lived in the Maulbronn monastery in the Middle Ages. Today the former abbey is one of the best-preserved monastery complexes north of the Alps and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Its construction was first undertaken in the Middle Ages by Cistercian monks, and it was then developed on a vast scale from the end of the 16th century until the 19th century. It is made up of an ...