Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage. In medieval times, you could do a lot worse than being a friar. Friars lived in stone complexes, with lush gardens full of fresh ...

Although little evidence of the medieval friars remains, careful consideration of the few extant primary visual and textual sources has revealed their historical importance in the region of Valencia ...

When we think of medieval friars, we may well picture Robin Hood's jolly Friar Tuck, known for his rotund figure and love of food and drink. But it turns out some of these monks were full of more ...

Friar Paolo Benanti wears the plain brown robes of his medieval Franciscan order as he pursues one of the most pressing issues in contemporary times: how to govern artificial intelligence so that ...

Lovers of the subgenre should lament this no more because there's an exceptional Medieval whodunnit waiting for them out there: The Name of the Rose. Set in the 14th century, it's about an ...

My apartment—formerly a godless zone for only the profane, not the sacred—now feels holy thanks to the scents of cold stone, ...

500). The two major medieval works on garden design and horticulture were by the Benedictine monk Walafrid Strabo (c. 850) and the Dominican friar Albert the Great (c.1250). Medieval universities ...

Higher education, and the pursuit of knowledge more broadly, can expand the spiritual horizons of the learner, argues Fr. Dan ...

Hidden canals wind their way under the main shopping centre in Cardiff, while beneath the fan campsite in a city centre park there lies a medieval friar's tunnel, its entrance just a couple of ...

Keywords: Franciscans, Spiritual Franciscans, medieval Aragon, Vilafranca del Penedès The medieval ... as an important travel conduit for a number of heretical Franciscan friars. Their movements are ...

Medieval pointy-toed shoes led to bunion surge Face of 13th Century patient recreated Cambridge skeletons Black Death study This showed 58% of the friars tested were infected, compared to 32% of ...