MEDIEVAL FACTS INFORMATION MONASTERY THE MIDDLE MONASTIC LAYOUT AGES LIVES MEN AND WOMEN PERIOD THE MIDDLE AGES TYPE BENEDICTINE RULE BENEDICT ORDERS MONKS THE MAJOR MEDIEVAL MONKS CISTERCIANS MONASTIC ORDERS THE DETAILS RELIGIOUS OBSERVATION TWELFTH CENTURY FOUR HUNDRED EIGHTEEN MONASTERIES THE NEXT COMMUNITY WHOSE NEED GOING BEYOND LIMITS COURSE OF TIME WEALTH NUMBER MIGHT COVERING ACRES PRESENTING MASSIVE WALLS APPEARANCE FORTIFIED TOWN HIERARCHY FEUDAL PYRAMID POWER PREVALENT FEUDALISM WEALTHY TERM THE AUTHORITY ABBEYS FEUDAL OBLIGATION LORD HIGHER NORMALLY PRIOR THE MONASTERY THE ABSENCE THE ABBOT RISE POSITIONS ARCHIVISTS THE PYRAMID CHURCH INTERNAL MONK GROUP OF TEN GENERAL THE HEAD CATHEDRAL CHAPTER THE SENIOR PRIEST SUPERVISOR RURAL DEANERY ABBOT MEANS SOCIAL NOBLES DESTINED TO LIFE ADVANCE IN RANGE PRINCIPAL BUILDINGS BENEDICTINE MONASTERY OF SORT REFECTORY DINING ROOM THE KITCHEN BUTTERY THE MONKS CHAPTER HOUSE GUEST HOUSE RECEPTION BESIDES BAKERIES LAUNDRIES VEGETABLE GARDENS GRAIN THE HIGH WALL SHUT IT OUTSIDERS IN TIME DANGER PROTECTED ROOMS PLAN DESCRIPTIONS THE ROOMS ROOM DISCUSS BUSINESS HEAR CHAPTER CLOISTER WALKWAY SITUATED QUADRANGLE COMPRISED OF PLAIN WALL COLONNADE OUTER WINDOWS DORTER SOMETIMES GARDEROBE INFIRMARY SICK THE NORMAL KITCHEN FOOD LAVATORIUM TROUGH RUNNING WATER HANDS MEALS MISERICORD STAIR STAIRCASE ENTER DORMITORY ORDER LATE NIGHT EARLY MORNING DINING HALL SACRISTY ATTACHED CHANCEL VESTMENTS SACRED SCRIPTORIUM THE ROOM CLERICS SCRIBES COPYING WARMING HOUSE THE ONLY APART FIRE REGULAR ROUND MANUAL EVERY DAY DIVIDED EIGHT BEGINNING ENDING SERVICE EVENING ADDITION ATTENDANCE SPENT HOURS READING PRIVATE HARD NECESSARY WASHING COOKING RAISING VEGETABLES PERFORMING THE OTHER ESTABLISHMENT USES SCHOOL PILGRIMS WESTERN EUROPE ALMOST DESTITUTE PERFORMED FEEDING HEALING THE SICK EDUCATION BOYS WISHED PRIESTS LEAD ACTIVE COPIED CLASSICAL AUTHORS BOOKS KEPT EVENTS ACTED CHRONICLERS MEDIEVAL HISTORY OF MENDICANT ORDERS CARMELITES BEGGING ORGANIZED INVOLVED THE OUTSIDE SECTION MIDDLE AGES WEBSITE TOPICS INTERESTING PEOPLE BYGONE MEDIEVAL TIMES SITEMAP FULL DETAILS THE INFORMATION SUBJECT RELIGION CHRISTIANITY CATHOLIC CATHOLICS CHRISTIANS INFO HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL MIDEVIL MEDIEVAL PERIOD TIMES WRITTEN BY LINDA PRIVACY STATEMENT