Alexis Jackson

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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...

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...