Life in a Medieval MonasteryExplains the role that monasteries played in medieval society, discusses the ideals which the different orders shared and the characteristics that made each one distinctive, and describes everyday life in the cloister. |
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... Cassiodorus , the former minister of Em- peror Theodoric the Great and the founder of a monastery , encouraged this activity in monasteries . As quoted by his- torian Paul Lacroix in Military and Reli- gious Life in the Middle Ages and ...
... Cassiodorus , the former minister of Em- peror Theodoric the Great and the founder of a monastery , encouraged this activity in monasteries . As quoted by his- torian Paul Lacroix in Military and Reli- gious Life in the Middle Ages and ...
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... Cassiodorus , had envisioned these po- tential roles for monks . Cassiodorus hoped to found centers of higher study in Rome similar The monastery was often the site of the first school in many communities . to the rabbinical schools of ...
... Cassiodorus , had envisioned these po- tential roles for monks . Cassiodorus hoped to found centers of higher study in Rome similar The monastery was often the site of the first school in many communities . to the rabbinical schools of ...
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Victoria Sherrow. his Introduction to Divine and Human Readings Cassiodorus carefully outlines a program for the monastic school . The monks were to cultivate the Biblical- patristic tradition [ in the ways of the Desert Fathers ] , but ...
Victoria Sherrow. his Introduction to Divine and Human Readings Cassiodorus carefully outlines a program for the monastic school . The monks were to cultivate the Biblical- patristic tradition [ in the ways of the Desert Fathers ] , but ...
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