A spirit of defiance and a mysterious culture endure on the French island of Corsica, intertwined with the timeless beauty of ...

The lost music of monks is set to be performed after 500 years of silence. The performance is part of a project led by the University of Exeter, which uncovered rare monastic chants in a 15th-century ...

Before the invention of the microscope and the field of entomology emerged, Joris Hoefnagel devoted himself to the natural world.

A heritage site has sparked significant interest after opening up two iconic buildings to potential business tenants.

Medieval people would have interacted with the embroidered players, giving them voice and enabling them to join the ...

When I began exploring the history of Christianity and the art it inspired, I had no idea it would lead me to one of the ...

The Bayeux Tapestry, a 70-meter- (229-foot)- long medieval artwork that depicts the Norman conquest of England, will be ...

This isn’t your average monk story. At Malmesbury Abbey, one man of the cloth gained a dark reputation—as a violent, vengeful figure who may have been responsible for multiple deaths. In this video, ...

The MET Cloisters will be opening a new exhibition later this autumn entitled Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages.

For the first time in nearly five centuries, Buckland Abbey in Devon will resonate once more with the sacred sounds of ...

The Art of Simple Living: 100 Daily Practices from a Japanese Zen Monk for a Lifetime of Calm and Joy Shunmyo Masuno, trans. from the Japanese by Allison Markin Powell. Penguin, $20 (224p) ISBN ...

A remote and neglected masterpiece by Fra Angelico has been restored ahead of the Renaissance legend's major museum show in ...