Life in the Middle Ages

 I've discussed before how monasticism began in the third century, when Saint Anthony decided to become a hermit and headed out into the...

 We tend to think of the medieval church as monolithic, as a single, unified entity.  In fact, there were numerous different entities within...

Today I want to talk about Suger, one of the most important political and ecclesiastical figures of twelfth-century France (c. 1081-1151).  ...

As I have discussed earlier, there were a large number of monasteries in the Middle Ages, houses where men (or women, though not both toget...

I've posted before about medieval monasticism.  Today I want to discuss one particular monastery and its associated monastic order, tha...

In an earlier post , I defined medieval monasticism.  Here I shall give more detail on the relations between the monks and the powerful lead...