The newly uncovered painting depicts a motif that was popular in the late Middle Ages. In the artwork, the Archangel Gabriel ...

St. Benedict, the father of Western monasticism, planted a rose garden at his early monastery in Subiaco near Rome (c. 500). The two major medieval works on garden design and horticulture were by the ...

Archeology Student Spots 5000-Yr-Old Sword Hidden in a Monastery, Analysis Revealed It Was Mistakenly Grouped With Medieval Artifacts An archeologist made a stunning discovery on a random trip to ...

Many were monastery infirmaries, eg Tintern, Valle Crucis and Strata Florida, or other religious houses, eg the Franciscan friaries in Cardiff and Bangor. However, these medieval hospitals were ...