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... monks , who viewed with sympathy the spread of monastic houses whose inmates , unlike the wandering Celtic monks already described , lived a strictly disciplined religious life within the walls . The Rule devised in Italy by St Benedict ...
... monks , who viewed with sympathy the spread of monastic houses whose inmates , unlike the wandering Celtic monks already described , lived a strictly disciplined religious life within the walls . The Rule devised in Italy by St Benedict ...
Page 123
... monks at right angles to them at tables placed down the length of the hall . Here , too , silence was the rule , although during meals the monks were read to from some devotional book . Refectory roofs were more often timber - covered ...
... monks at right angles to them at tables placed down the length of the hall . Here , too , silence was the rule , although during meals the monks were read to from some devotional book . Refectory roofs were more often timber - covered ...
Page 124
... monks stood up and bowed as he passed . Standing separate from the cloister , and usually to the east of it , were the infirmary with its own chapel and refectory and the monks ' cemetery , where the monks might be required to spend ...
... monks stood up and bowed as he passed . Standing separate from the cloister , and usually to the east of it , were the infirmary with its own chapel and refectory and the monks ' cemetery , where the monks might be required to spend ...
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How Britain Began 1 The Earliest Inhabitants | 1 |
Roman Britain | 16 |
The Coming of the English | 29 |
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