Kreiner is a professor of history at the University of Georgia specializing in the early Middle Ages, and the author of The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction It’s ...

The British monks in the 10 th century, influenced by oral tradition, wrote this poem to examine what it meant that their new religion, and god was a word. “They were actually taking parts of ...

Cambridge Archaeological Unit The Augustinian friars of medieval Britain pledged themselves to a life of poverty, but their friaries offered a pretty high standard of communal living. The monks ...

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 ...

Jamie Kreiner (Hist/Mus,’04) thinks a lot about thinking. Her new book, The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction, achieved a rare feat for a scholarly work: The Wall Street ...

Monks, and other scribes from the era ... for Environmental Sciences at the University of Geneva. Guillet believes medieval manuscripts contain an important source of information about a string ...

Even centuries after voices first soared in the stone-walled chambers of churches and monasteries, the music of medieval monks' chants has the power to send chills through the body of listeners.

"Medieval monks were 'riddled with parasites'." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2022 / 08 / 220818190621.htm (accessed May 1, 2025). Explore More ...

Forget all the myths you’ve heard about the Dark Ages: medieval scholars didn’t think ... instruments that these men – many of them monks – used to explore the universe around them.

Medieval's story is described as The Dirty Dozen set in medieval times. It's been called a "badass script" about seven imprisoned men - a gypsy, a thief, a samurai, a knight, a monk, an Arab and a ...

Medieval monks "appear to have been riddled with parasites" despite having access to hand-washing facilities and latrine blocks, a study has found. The discovery was made during an analysis of ...

They lived in northern and eastern Scotland in the early medieval period. Likely descended from Celtic tribes, the Picts are famous for successfully resisting Roman conquest. While the Romans ...