The Age of the Cloister: The Story of Monastic Life in the Middle Ages by Christopher Brooke

The Age of the Cloister: The Story of Monastic Life in the Middle Ages by Christopher Brooke

The Age of the Cloister offers a fascinating overview of the birth and flowering of monasticism, and describes in great detail the everyday monastic life and the faith, literature, economy, architecture and culture of countless monks, hermits, nuns, canons, friars and lay men and women spanning hundreds of years.