The crusades had hardly been brought to a close before continental Europe witnessed an outbreak, in epidemic form, of a practice that had been long associated with monastic discipline.
There were ascetic orders for old men and nunneries for widows among the Totomacs, monastic orders among Toltecs dedicated to the service of Quetzalcoatl, and others among the Aztecs consecrated to Tezcatlipoca.
For a careful description of the monastic discipline in its more normal aspects, see Bingham's Works, vol.
However strongly some people may have resented the monastic ideal, it nevertheless gave increased strength and vitality to the religious idea.
Four hundred years later the state of monastic morals is sufficiently indicated by a regulation of St. Theodore Studita prohibiting the entrance of female animals into monasteries.
The social and domestic virtues received full recognition from the upholders of the monastic life, and there is no evidence that asceticism ever assumed an epidemic form.
The use of the whip as a form of religious discipline had always played a part in conventual and monastic life.
The Irish monastic superiors, says a lively French writer, aimed at making their monks saints, and were surprised to find them become poets likewise.
The chapel alone is finished, and in it service is regularly performed by a resident priest, who lives in one part of the monastic buildings.
As we have just intimated, no portion whatever of the monastic buildings remains, but there can be no doubt they were of considerable extent and importance.
All that remains of this once famous establishment is a square building “enclosing a square yard, partly occupied by cloisters, and partly devoted to other purposes of a monastic establishment.
Afterwards it obtained renown from the number and importance of its monastic establishments.
The monastic buildings, on the site of old Alton Castle, are charmingly situated, and deserve a few words at our hands.
Luther looks on holy baptism in contrast with the monastic vows, and asserts the common glory of the baptism and Christian profession which all Christians share, against the exclusive claims of any section of priests or monks.
But the great event which is agitating Wittemberg now is the abandonment of the cloister and the monastic life by thirteen of the Augustinian monks.
The chapter of the Augustinian Order in Thuringia and Misnia has met here within this last month, to consider the question of the irrevocable nature of monastic vows.
Then my mother is truly and undoubtedly as much treading the way appointed her as Aunt Agnes; and the monastic life is only one among callings equally sacred.
Then, for the first time in my life the thought flashed on me, of the monastic vows, the cloister and the cowl.
He has seen the monasteries from within; he has felt the monasticlife from within.
A chasm has opened between me and my monastic life.
It is like the chill, dark crypts underneath our churches, where the masses for the dead are celebrated, and where in some monastic churches the embalmed corpses lie shrivelled to mummies, and visible through gratings.
Thus the first great ceremony of my monastic life is over, and it has left me with a feeling of blank and disappointment.
Monastic institutions," he continues, "to be of any use ought to be schools, in which children may be brought up until they are adults.
For the priests to marry is merely a change of state; for the monks to abandon their vows is the destruction of their order, and of the monastic life altogether.
They demolished the walls of the cloisters and levelled to the dust the other portions of the monastic buildings which then extended across the river on arches up to the tower gateway, the only vestige of the house which now remains.
How thoroughly the old monastic builders understood their work.
We were in the old monastic garden,--garden so quiet, so cool, so fragrant.
So again I passed by the circling glade and the monastic well,--sward, trees, and ruins all suffused in the limpid moonlight.
Now how gloomy--how trulymonastic appeared the Charter House, as they traversed the spacious court, bounded by the low, uniform ranges of buildings.
The fact that these poor old men are thus compelled to wear the badge of monastic pauperism is the iron that enters into their souls.
This room had something, even now, in the days of its desecration, of monastic beauty about it.
At other times the monastic covering of wood and leather is observable, and often the leather gave way to seal and shark skin without any tooling or other ornamentation.
The only exceptions are, in case the child is destined to monastic life from the first days of his existence, and in case the child is consecrated to the service of one of the gods of the Trimurti even before he is born.
That is to say, they are disciples of initiates who have entirely resigned the life of the world, and lead a life of monastic chastity.
The Sovereign had claimed and enforced his own supremacy, involving the repudiation of papal authority, the submission of the clergy to the Supreme Head, and the appropriation by the Crown of Monastic property.
But it may be doubted whether the real motive of the suppression was not rather the appropriation of funds for his favourite schemes than zeal for monastic morality.
The landowners did not emulate the monastic practice of dispensing charity, so that distress went unrelieved.
The measure was carried out with great harshness, and especial severity was shown in the cases where abbots and monks attempted to conceal the monastic treasures.
There had been previous suppressions ofmonastic establishments; but in these cases the funds, ostensibly at least, had been diverted to other purposes recognised as ecclesiastical, such as Wolsey's schools and colleges.
Sidenote: The Black Book] Also, it is very doubtful whether the "black book" of monastic offences was ever laid before parliament.
The monastic lands passed to lay owners by grant or purchase; they enriched the King or his friends or those whom Cromwell thought fit to enrich or to gratify.
Now however the opportunity was taken to devote some of the monastic funds to coast defence.
No, Feltre's' rigid monastic system is the sole haven.
But the figure of a 'monastic man of fashion' was antipathetic to the earl, and he flouted an English Protestant mass merely because of his being highly individual, and therefore revolutionary for the minority.
For the Lord Protector was the son of this Robert, who by a sort of atavism had added to the ample income derived from monastic spoil the profits of a brewery.
The monastic system had been marking time for over 100 years, and in certain political aspects of its power had perhaps slightly dwindled.
This personage struck no root, nor his son after him, for in 1613, while still some were alive who could remember the old custom and immemorial monastic lordship of the place, Weldon the younger sold it to a certain Davis.
In a general survey of monasticinfluence in the Valley of the Thames, it would be natural to omit the foundations which belonged to the later Middle Ages.
The Laurentian library at Florence was designed by Michelangelo on the monastic model.
In Italy Monte Cassino is a striking example of the dangers and vicissitudes to which monastic collections were exposed.
The hermit communities of the Egyptian deserts formed organizations which developed into the later monastic orders of Western Europe and the accumulation of books for the brethren was one of their cares.
The libraries of St Genevieve and St Victor, belonging to the former, were amongst the largest of the monastic collections.
Joseph Hunter has collected some particulars as to the contents of the English monastic libraries, and Ed.
The library of Hereford is a good specimen of an old monastic library; the books are placed in the Lady Chapel, and about 230 choice MSS.
Many of the librarians of these monastic libraries are trained in the great Vienna libraries.
The Gregorian tradition of opposition to pagan learning long continued to dominate the literary pursuits of the monastic orders and the labours of the scriptorium.
By the end of the 17th century the type of the public library developed from collegiate and monastic prototypes, became fixed as it were throughout Europe (H.
It affords a conspicuous example of monastic industry in the transcription not only of theological but also of classical works.
The methods and fittings of college libraries of early foundation closely resembled those of the monastic libraries.
The inroads of the Northmen in the 9th and 10th centuries had been fatal to the monasticlibraries on both sides of the channel.
The Church did not attempt universal education, but by her monastic schools, her bursaries and her seminaries she set up a ladder leading to the most exalted of all her dignities for the most fit.
With good reason was provision made in past ages by decrees of the Roman pontiffs, canons of councils, and monastic laws that both sections of the clergy should chant or recite the whole Psalter every week.
Other monastic chronicles of the thirteenth century, of small importance, enumerated by Dr.
At Cartmel, Lancaster, and Preston, favoured monastic buildings alone stood entire amidst the desolation wrought by the Scots.
The estimation in which the monastic ideal was held limited their influence.
Not less strong was the hostility of the monastic orders which is often expressed in Matthew Paris's free-spoken abuse of them.
Yet the monastic ideal had no longer the force that it had in previous generations, and even the latest embodiments of the religious life had declined from their original popularity.
Gothic, monastic order; in front, it looks like the West-Front of York Minster.
How I loved to sit in the holy hush of those brown old monastic aisles, thinking of Harry the Eighth, and the Reformation!
In vain did Bury, with all its fine old monastic attractions, lure him to abide on the beautiful banks of her Larke, and under the shadow of her stately and storied old Saxon tower.
What effect can we ascribe to this admonitory chastisement upon the general temper and conduct of the monastic interest?
Unhappily the official visitors were the heads of the monastic orders; these, and these only.
Formerly, the monastic funds were drawn upon to excess in defraying the costs of a transmarine visitation.
Meantime, what was it that had stolen like a canker-worm into the machinery of these monastic bodies, and insensibly had corroded a principle originally of admitted purity?
Here a monastic institution was founded on the introduction of Christianity into Britain.
Under Edward the Confessor an abbey was raised upon the site of the ruined monastic building.
The Church and the Feudal System--The Monastic Orders and Society.
St. Gregory the Great--Monastic Italy and Spain in the Sixth and Seventh Centuries.
Here the allusion is of course to the miseries entailed by the system of sheep-farming; a system which had been introduced and carried to excess by the monastic bodies.
Unhappily the history of thismonastic foundation, which one may well believe would have been of supreme interest, is almost untraceable.
The mastership of authority and reverence, springing out of the school of quies, did not cease to exert a considerable influence even after the dominant power of the monastic body had nearly disappeared.
As Christianity spread in the early part of the middle ages, these monastic centres were multiplied like the posterity of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
The bishops are always chosen from the monastic class; and the two classes hate each other with remarkable heartiness.
A monk might well take pleasure in such unaffected simplicity and gentleness among those whose ancestors had been so intimately linked of old with monastic patrons.
Had the monastic schools retained their ascendency," he says, "polite letters would never have fallen into such neglect.
The house itself had a monastic appearance and origin.
The change from the monastic to the scholastic era was one of which we can hardly form an idea.
Cambridge seems to have cultivated the Anglo-Saxon tongue, as Tavistock also did, a monastic school where the language was regularly taught "to assist the monks in deciphering their own ancient charters.
The real temper of the church, the temper which will be hers eternally in heaven, is the temper of Mary; the contemplative, monasticideal of perfect peace.
Others who fail at their books wait for their thirtieth year, and are placed meanwhile each one under the care of some monk, who is supposed to form him for the monastic state.
The Columnal Fathers and the Angelical were in completest harmony; they were knit together by the monastic principle.
A great revival was initiated by him, a reform among the clergy vigorously enforced, episcopal seminaries reopened, and monastic schools once more brought to their ancient place in the vanguard of civilization.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "monastic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
