In my medieval studies, I contemplated 1115, the year the founder of the Cistercians, Bernard, founded a new religious house, Clairvaux Abbey. I spent time meditating on how the reforms of Cluny ...

She traces the links between the discourse of the most powerful abbey of twelfth-century Christendom, Cluny in Burgundy, which defined miracle-making in terms of its declared enemies, Jews and Muslim, ...

Why Cluny Abbey, and what did it achieve? Nothing less than promoting one of the most potent ideas in the history of the West, an aspiration never fulfilled, but which still haunts the world: the ...

Welcome to Westminster Abbey. Daily prayer has been offered in this place for over a thousand years, and your participation in today's service is warmly welcomed. At Matins most of the service is sung ...

Everyone is welcome at these services, free of charge. Security checks are in place upon entry. You are surrounded by history at the Abbey, not like a museum where it’s just displayed, but here you ...

Tonight will continue dry with clear skies. It will be a mild night with a southerly breeze. Friday Tomorrow will be another dry day with hazy spells of sunshine and a few areas of cloud moving in ...

Staying cloudy tonight, with showers clearing away for most but the odd further shower can't be completely ruled out overnight. Some fog and mist in spots, mainly early on. Monday Tomorrow, it ...