Daily Life in a Medieval Monastery

This book covers the entire span of monastic history in the late-ancient and medieval periods and provides an in-depth look at several monasteries across Europe. Each chapter introduces the reader to the surviving evidence for the houses studied, such as its monastic rules, plans, records of visitation, chronicles, and biographical accounts; and aims to give an "insider" view―not only of monks' and nuns' daily activities, but what these dedicated individuals' values, ambitions, and aspirations might have been.