Medieval Monks, Nuns, and Monastic Life: 21st Biennial Symposium of the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society, 15–20 July 2018:doi:10.1177/0012580619883515George FerzocoCarolyn MuessigSAGE PublicationsSage UK: London, EnglandThe Downside Review...
The Black Death of 1348 dealt the monasteries a major blow, decimating the number of monks and nuns, and most never fully recovered. When Henry VIII engineered his break with Rome in the 1530s, the rich monastic houses were one of his first targets. A few of the abbey churches near ...
Monks and nuns ran monasteries as hospitals too. In 937 CE, the first hospital in England was built by the Saxons. After this, several hospitals were also established. The public health needs of those in wars and the plague also influenced the building of more hospitals. ...
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McNamara, JoAnn.Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns through Two Millennia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996. Survey stretching from the earliest Christian generations to the twentieth century. McNamara proposed a theory of Christian syneisactism that flourished in the earliest Middle Ages, bu...
One can imagine the dismay of celibate clergy, monks, and nuns who awakened with vivid memories of erotic dreams. By attributing such dream images to evil spirits who seduced them in their sleep, they could absolve themselves of responsibility for such dreams. The Dream Encyclopedia, Second ...
[6]Prior to the establishment of universities, European higher education took place for hundreds of years in Christian cathedral schools or monastic schools (scholae monasticae), in which monks and nuns taught classes. Evidence of these immediate forerunners of the later university at many places ...
stories helped monks and nuns to prepare themselves for the kinds ofbehaviours and activities of demons that we see in f irst person accounts ofvisionary experiences. The word “visionary” belies the fact that the demonsoften did what seemed to be quite physical things, moving objects andpeople...
Pope Urban IIc.1035 – 1099was a powerful Pope who initiated the Crusades*Holy Warand was the ruler of the Papal States in 1088. Medieval priests provided spiritual guidance tomedieval peopleand organized religious ceremonies in local churches, whereas monks and nuns used to give up ordinary live...
They were self-contained enclaves where monks or nuns chose to live a simple life of prayer and work. At least that was the theory. In practice monks at least were often criticized for their laxity and concern with worldly affairs. The first monasteries adhered to the Benedictine Rule, ...