"To examine all this in its social context, Professor Lawrence traces the Western monastic tradition from its fourth-century origins in the deserts of Egypt and Syria, through the many and various forms of religious life it assumed during the middle ages (including its revolutionary adaptation by the new orders of mendicant friars in the thirteenth century). Moreover, richly endowed by kings and magnates, the great monastic houses and their leaders figured as much on the political, as on the spiritual, map of the medieval world. The service they rendered to European civilization is incalculable. From the back cover write-up : ' Although monasticism still exists today, it is no longer the prominent feature of the social landscape that it was in medieval times: for a thousand years the monasteries and religious orders played a mjor role in the society, economy, and culture of the West. the book was published in 1989 by Longman. This is the Second Edition of "Medieval Monasticism : Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages" by C.
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