The abbey at Pannonhalma was founded in 996, four years before the establishment of the Hungarian Kingdom. Sitting upon a ...

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 ...

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

A UNIQUE 600-year-old book once used by Buckland Abbey’s monks will be returning to the abbey this summer for the first time ...

Rare music is set to be played at a Devon abbey for the first time in almost 500 years after it was found in a medieval book.

Rare medieval music, discovered within a 15th-century book, will resonate through Buckland Abbey in Devon this August, ...

The discovery of rare music inside a medieval book has brought the sound of monks back to an abbey for the first time in 500 years. A performance of the “plaintive” music will be held in August at ...

Casamari Abbey in Italy is a gem of Cistercian-Gothic art, whose stones have been imbued with the prayers of monks over the centuries. Here, the monks have dedicated their lives to the vows of ...

Two men had a significant impact on Kirkstall Abbey’s existence. Henry the VIII ordered its dissolution in 1539. Thomas North bought the area in 1888 and donated it to Leeds Corporation.

NL 12th century monks used seal skin to bind books — despite not knowing what a seal looked like University of Cambridge researchers stunned to find use of seal skin in northern France ...

The monks curated a vast manuscript and book collection at the Library of Clairvaux Abbey, a site in Champagne, France, founded in 1115. The group of 12th- and 13th-century works expanded to more than ...