There’s also the story of Eilmer the 11th-century monk, who constructed a pair of wings and flew from the top of Malmesbury ... The influence of the genre we call “fantasy”, which often looks back to ...

But how and what did medieval monks eat at Christmas? Because they had a relatively uninspired regular diet, they looked with anticipation to the meal they would eat on Christmas day. The typical ...

Augustine continued this philosophical tradition, meeting with his fellow monks in a garden given to him by his friend Valerius. St. Benedict, the father of Western monasticism, planted a rose garden ...