Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebookand Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. In 1413, Margery Kempe was embarking on a dangerous quest. She and her ...

Sometime in the 14th century an English woman we know as Julian came to the Church of St. Julian and St. Edward in Conisford at Norwich, where, in a manner of speaking, she was voluntarily “buried ...

At first they sounded to me like the names of medieval cricket teams, but it turns out that mendicants and anchorites were actually two different types of ancient monastics. Mendicants were nomadic ...

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SCHOOL of SIENA. About 1430. (Tempera, w. 13 x 18.) The Exorcising of Evil Spirits by the anchorites of the desert. The neophytes, purged of their inborn evils, in the shape of demons, are clothed ...