Monastism Of The Renaissance

Monasticism has played a vital role in the creation, preservation and transmission of culture. This was especially true of the Christian orders in the renaissance. Often the only members of society were monks. It was they who made and transmitted written copies of the Bible and other an

communities. They were expert farmers who were able to pass on benefits of their expertise to peasants on the large manors. The monasteries established by these orders were all self - contained communities and were divided into abbeys and priories, and the abbey was the main feature at the church. Other buildings were surrounded around the church, which formed a thing called the monastic compound. The monastery’s cloister was an enclosed space surrounding all four sides of a rectangular court known as the garth. The four walls of the cloister were roofed. Inside the monks worked on such duties as copying the manuscripts.

To say that only men played a role of a monastery, it would be insane. Women played a small but very significant roll of monasteries. In all monastic traditions, as in most religions generally, women have always occupied a status inferior to men. Roman Catholicism has consistently refused to grant equal status to nuns because they cannot be ordained as priests. In the early days of Christianity, women who vowed to give their life to serve God in their home. Later they lived in community houses called “parthenones” which means virgin in Greek. The implication, of course, was that such women would never marry or have sex, it was against the monastic teachings. The word nun is derived from this Greek term by way of the French which is “nonne”. During the renaissance there were many communities of nuns throughout Europe. Their organizations were, with few exceptions similar to those of monks. A nun is a woman who

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