Published on May 24, 2014
It's almost Monk Time!
Of Monks and Menmonksandmen.tumblr.com@monksandmen
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Published on Mar 14, 2014
What's in a Monastery?
Sure, we know all about churches, but what is actually in a monastery? Cloistered monks can live inside the monastery walls for decades, so the buildings and structures have to serve the needs of t...
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Published on Mar 13, 2014
Meet Cluny!
Hello, and welcome to one of the biggest and most powerful monasteries of the Middle Ages! Cistercians may get all the attention, but the Cluniacs paved the way centuries before Bernard of Clairvau...
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They might have in the later centuries, but I don't think that they were brewing beer during the 10th-13th century "glory years". The monks at Cluny tended to prefer mental "labor" over physical labor!
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