Medieval monks lived lives centered on prayer, labor, and surprisingly large amounts of alcohol. Beer and wine were safer ...

When we think of eating in the medieval era, we often envision wooden banquet tables, goblets, elaborate salt cellars, and giant turkey legs. Banquet tables were even more adorned on Christmas, at ...

Food for monks in the middle ages consisted of what was grown within the monastery and what could be begged from nearby towns. Their main foodstuffs included vegetables such as turnips or salad, dark ...

The best location for a monastery was one that was close to water and wood. Many monastic chroniclers mention this. Orderic Vitalis, born in England near Shrewsbury in 1075 and sent to the Norman ...

The Lough Kinale Book Shrine was discovered in an Irish lake in 1986. National Museum of Ireland In the early Middle Ages, Irish monks transported an important collection of texts to continental ...