In Cáceres, Spain, the fairytale city where much of House of Dragons was filmed, a sweet secret lies behind the hidden windows of three convents. Inside, cloistered nuns make cookies and sell them to ...

One afternoon this past summer, a car sped out of the gates of a convent in northern Spain and kept going until it reached another convent 85 miles away. Behind the wheel was a nun. In the passenger’s ...

In the medieval church, women’s roles were limited – usually some form of enclosure and celibacy, such as becoming an anchoress walled up alone for life, or a nun in a classic convent. On the other ...

When you read the subtitle of the new memoir, "California Medieval: Nearly A Nun in 1960s San Francisco," if you're of a certain age, you might immediately recall The Singing Nun, the Belgian ...

Laís and Jackson Dognini clarified the details of their unlikely origin story to her 17,700 Instagram followers ...

In 1653, a painting of Jesus crowned with thorns was brought to the convent of San Paolo in Orvieto, Italy, by a young woman taking the veil there. The image was of dramatic provenance, discovered in ...

(The Conversation) — Women’s work may not have been glamorous, but it was vital to the workings of the pope’s court and surrounding city. (The Conversation) — In the medieval church, women’s roles ...