Monastic World: A 1,200-Year History Publisher / Hauser & Wirth Coming from a lineage of

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Monastic World: A 1,200-Year History Publisher / Hauser & Wirth Coming from a lineage ofA major new history of medieval monasticism, from the fourth to the sixteenth century From the late Roman Empire onwards, monasteries and convents were a common sight throughout Europe. But who were monasteries for? What kind of people founded and maintained them? And how did monasticism change over the thousand years or so of the Middle Ages? Andrew Jotischky traces the history of monastic life from its origins in the fourth century to the sixteenth.