Posted on 25 July 2018
The Centre for Lifelong Learning's Associate Lecturer & Programme Director, Dr Emma Wells, has had her article published in BBC History magazine.
The article is entitled 'Monks behaving badly' and Dr Wells reveals why some men of the cloth simply couldn’t resist the pleasures of the flesh. She looks at the contemporary chronicles that claim England’s medieval clergy spent just as much time drinking, gambling and fornicating with prostitutes as attending to their flocks’ spiritual needs.
Read the full article, 'Monks behaving badly'.