Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Monasteries have served as the home base of monks and nuns for centuries. Now you too can live like the holy. A century-old estate ...

Science is helping researchers judge books by their covers — and revealing surprising beneficiaries of medieval trading routes in the process. Dozens of rare, fur-covered volumes from 12th and 13th ...

The local mayor compared the ancient monastery of Mont-Dieu to Notre-Dame in Paris Mont-Dieu's Carthusian monastery traces its origins back to 1130 No works of art were within the monastery at the ...