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    Medieval Monks & Nuns

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    Medieval monks and nuns provided important services like caring for the sick, teaching literacy, and offering charity and shelter to people in need. They lived highly structured lives centered around prayer, work, and following strict rules. Monks and nuns lived and worked together in monasteries and convents, with buildings like churches, cloisters, dormitories, and infirmaries arranged around a central garden. Their architecture evolved over time from the Romanesque to Gothic styles.

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    Medieval monks and nuns provided important services like caring for the sick, teaching literacy, and offering charity and shelter to people in need. They lived highly structured lives centered around prayer, work, and following strict rules. Monks and nuns lived and worked together in monasteries and convents, with buildings like churches, cloisters, dormitories, and infirmaries arranged around a central garden. Their architecture evolved over time from the Romanesque to Gothic styles.

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    Medieval monks and nuns provided important services like caring for the sick, teaching literacy, and offering charity and shelter to people in need. They lived highly structured lives centered around prayer, work, and following strict rules. Monks and nuns lived and worked together in monasteries and convents, with buildings like churches, cloisters, dormitories, and infirmaries arranged around a central garden. Their architecture evolved over time from the Romanesque to Gothic styles.

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    Medieval

    Monks & Nuns


    What are we going to take a
    look at?
    - The purpose of monks
    and nuns
    - Becoming a monk or nun
    - Daily Life
    - Monasteries
    - Church architecture
    The Purpose of
    Monks and Nuns
    • Monks and nuns did much to help and
    improve medieval society.
    • They tended to the sick.
    • They taught people to read and write.
    • They provided charity to the poor.
    • They provided accommodation to people
    travelling.
    • They provided sanctuary (place of safety)
    to people in danger of being attacked or
    arrested.
    • Q1: Does the work of monks and nuns
    remind you of any modern institutions or
    organisations?
    Becoming a Monk or
    Nun
    • Anyone who became a monk or nun first
    had to serve as a novice (think of it like an
    apprentice craftsman).
    • They would help with the work of the
    monastery (monks) or convent (nuns) and
    learn the Rule of St. Benedict.
    • The head abbot or abbess would decide if
    the novice became a monk or nun.
    • New monks and nuns took three vows
    (promises): 1. Poverty – no personal
    possessions, 2. Chastity – never marry or
    have kids and 3. Obedience – obey their
    abbot or abbess
    • New monks had their heads shaved in the
    Daily Life
    • According to the Rule of St. Benedict,
    monk/nun life was organised around prayer
    and work.
    • Being inactive (or idle) was seen as a pathway
    to living a bad or sinful life which is why
    monks/nuns kept themselves so busy.
    • Prayer was held seven times a day in the
    church.
    • Monks/nuns did various jobs in their
    monasteries/convents: farming, teaching,
    creating manuscripts, embroidery, providing
    medical aid and charity to locals.
    • Q2: Do you admire the work of monks and
    nuns or do you wonder why they bothered?
    • Q3: Could you ever imagine yourself as a nun?
    Why? Why not?
    Some did lose the run of themselves.
    Monasteries
    • The church was the main
    building and was used for
    mass.
    • The cloister was a covered
    walkway enclosed by a
    garden.
    • Manuscripts were worked
    on in the scriptorium.
    • Sick people were treated in
    the infirmary.
    • Meals were had in the
    refectory.
    • The dormitory provided
    sleeping quarters.
    Do you recognise this cloister?
    Church
    Architecture
    • Over the course of the
    Middle Ages, the style of
    church architecture changed
    from Romanesque to
    Gothic.
    • The features of Gothic style
    included rose windows,
    lancet windows, pointed
    windows, spires and
    buttresses.
    • Q4: Do any of you recognise
    this famous landmark?
    • Q5: Do you prefer Gothic or
    Romanesque style and why?
    A Romanesque Abbey

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