It explores the everyday life of monastic individuals, the collective experience of religious communities ... Trappist abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani in Kentucky (the house of Thomas Merton) the ...

As part of the Reformation, Henry also took over church land, including all monastic institutions, leading to many monasteries and convents being closed down. This took away a crucial source of ...

His ascetic dwelling and tomb became a holy site and were transformed into a monastic complex which played an important role in the spiritual and social life of medieval Bulgaria. Destroyed by fire at ...

In 2021, archaeologists searching the bank of the Thames in England stumbled upon a medieval building near a modern-day ...