The story of the middle ages; an elementary history for sixth and seventh grades . gray friars, or whitefriars, according to the color of their dress. Besides the orders for , there were also orders ofnuns for Avomen. St. Scholastica, the friend of , and St. Clara, the friend of St. Francis, werethe founders of two important orders of nuns. In someplaces in the ]\Iiddle Ages nunneries became almost ascommon as monasteries. Let us try, now, to see what a Benedictine monastery was like. One of Benedicts rules provided that every monastery • should be so arranged that p.® P°°*^*y e
The story of the middle ages; an elementary history for sixth and seventh grades . gray friars, or whitefriars, according to the color of their dress. Besides the orders for , there were also orders ofnuns for Avomen. St. Scholastica, the friend of , and St. Clara, the friend of St. Francis, werethe founders of two important orders of nuns. In someplaces in the ]\Iiddle Ages nunneries became almost ascommon as monasteries. Let us try, now, to see what a Benedictine monastery was like. One of Benedicts rules provided that every monastery • should be so arranged that p.® P°°*^*y everything the monks needed would be in 1)uildings. ? the monastery itself, and there would beno need to wander about outside; for this, saidBenedict, is not at all good for tlieir souls. Each LIFE OF THE MONASTERY 197 monastery, therefore, became a settlement complete initself. It not only had its halls, Avhere the monks ateand slept, and its own church; it had also its own mill,its own bake-oven, and its own workshops, where themonks made the things wdiich they A GERMAN MONASTERY The better to shut out the world, and to protect the monastery against robbers, the buildings were sur- Iounded by a strong wall. Outside of this te^ry Tan(fs^. ^.^ ^^^^ ficlds of tile luonastcry, where the monks themselves raised the grain they needed, or which were tilled for them by peasants, in the same way that the lands of the lords were tilled. Finally, there was the woodland, where the swine Avere herded; and the pasture lands, where the cattle and sheep were sent to graze. The amount of land b{>louging to a monastery was 198 TEE STORY OF THE MIDDLE AGES often quite large. Nobles and kings frequently gavegifts of land, and the monks in return prayed for theirsouls. Often, when the land came into tiie possessionof the monks, it was covered with swamps or by unwearying labor the swamps were drained andthe forests felled, and soon smiling fields appearedwhere before t
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