He retired to Ripon, acted as bishop in other parts, and helped forward the introduction of Roman monasticism into monasteries that had hitherto followed the Columban model.
The admiration of the Normans for monasticism caused a considerable increase in the practice of endowing monasteries with tithes and parish churches, and thus in many cases tithes were paid to abbeys both here and abroad.
Then she helped him to visit Rome, and he made the journey, which was as yet unknown to his fellow-countrymen, partly in the company of Benedict Biscop, who became the founder of Roman monasticism in the north of England.
The collapse of monasticism entailed the decay of learning, for the monastic schools were generally closed.
Their monasticism was of a specially ascetic character.
The great organizer of western monasticism was Benedict, who lived in the early sixth century, and founded the monastery at Monte Cassino about 520 A.
However, the Antonian type of monkhood continued to be the more popular in Egypt, wheremonasticism flourished throughout the fourth, but began to decline in the fifth, century.
Monasticism was introduced in the West by Athanasius, who came from Egypt to Rome in 339.
The founder of the Greek monasticism was Basil (c.
The purpose of this digression has been to show that by the time that the monks entered upon their mission in this country, the idea of monasticism was firmly established on the continent.
The origin of Christian monasticism is due partly to the moral conditions prevalent in the early centuries of the Christian era and partly to the mystical and ascetic tendencies which manifest themselves in some individuals.
A third stage in the evolution of monasticism is associated with the name of St. Basil of Caesarea.
The remarkable success of monasticism led to a great increase in the number of those who desired to enrol themselves as members of an organised religious community.
The code of rules here enunciated constituted the law of monasticism in Gaul till it gave place to the regulations of Benedict.
The strange combination of monasticism and chivalry corresponded so exactly to the ideal of Christian knighthood that the Military Orders thus founded speedily were reckoned among the leading institutions of Europe.
He re-created monasticism in England, making it stricter in discipline and purer in purpose.
Monasticism and the papacy were strongly allied; one supported the other.
Celibacy of the clergy Alliance of the Papacy and Monasticism Opposition to the reforms of Hildebrand Terrible power of excommunication Simony and its evils Secularization of the clergy Separation of spiritual from temporal power Henry IV.
However, the first authentic evidence of monasticism appears in the year 679, when the holy brethren founded their establishment.
In the early days of monasticism the inmates of the ecclesiastical buildings were the only recipients of learning and exponents of illuminated manuscripts, in addition to the knowledge of some trade or other.
The first and far the longest part of the dialogue, where we detect a true note of sincerity, is a remorseless onslaught upon monasticism under the name of Stoicism, resulting in a no less uncompromising defense of physical appetite.
This great theme is nothing less than monasticismin its vilest aspects.
And it is also certain that the tendency to regard monasticism as the natural career for superfluous girls and as the natural alternative to marriage, was capable of grave abuse.
The Benedictine ideal set study together with prayer and labour as the three bases of monastic life and in the short golden age of English monasticism women as well as men loved books and learning.
As a rule the medieval satirists of monasticism deal in grave admonitions, or in violent reproaches.
Perhaps fashion had veered, conscious that the golden days of monasticism were over; more likely the growing poverty of the houses rendered them a less tempting retreat.
Certainly the attempt of monasticism to expel it with a pitchfork failed.
For some reason which it is impossible to explain, monasticism did not produce in England during the later middle ages any women of sanctity or genius who can compare with the great Anglo-Saxon abbesses[1549].
It has been the custom, not only of writers on monasticism but also of the man in the street, to assume that the nunneries were almost solely responsible for the education of girls in the middle ages.
Greek monachism underwent no development or change for four centuries, except the vicissitudes inevitable in all things human, which in monasticism assume the form of alternations of relaxation and revival.
But monasticism they invented - We ordained it not for them - only seeking Allah's pleasure, and they observed it not with right observance.
But the Monasticism which they invented for themselves, We did not prescribe for them: (We commanded) only the seeking for the Good Pleasure of Allah; but that they did not foster as they should have done.
Antagonism against monasticism was born the day Luther decided to take a wife; and as long as that same spirit lingers on earth we shall expect this antagonism to thrive and prosper.
Scoffers and revilers of monasticism are a necessary evil.
We take it for granted that intelligent men do not oppose an institution as venerable as monasticism without reasons.
This desire to get away from the world and still mix in it shows that monasticism is not quite sincere--we want society no less than we want solitude.
And so the history of monasticism and the history of the Church is the record of a struggle against idleness and corruption.
Monasticism does not necessarily imply celibacy, but as unrequited or misplaced love is usually the precursor of the monastic impulse, celibacy or some strange idea on the sex problem usually is in evidence.
It was in Egypt where monasticism first took its rise, and the Coptic monasteries of St. Anthony and St. Paul claim to be founded on the spots where the first hermits established their cells on the shores of the Red Sea.
It was a stage in the national development, a movement in religious progress, and it was only abolished when the salt had lost its savour, when monasticism had ceased to be spiritual and had become worldly and corrupt.
Roman monasticism thus became an important factor in Scottish life, and it is true to say that for a very considerable period the history both of piety and civilisation in Scotland was the history of its monasticism.
Their grievance against monasticism arose from the corrupt lives of the monks and from its intrusion on the parochial system with the alienation of the parish teinds to the use of the monastery.
Scottish monasticism exhibited the expansion of the two main streams--the Augustinian and the Benedictine, and each subsequent order is to be regarded as an endeavour towards reform.
Monasticism had already taken a firm hold in Ireland, and the more zealous of the Irish monks were founding monasteries in the islands around the Irish coast, as well as on islands in the larger lakes.
Ambrose of Milan, though no monk himself, was the fervent preacher of, the careful legislator for, monasticism male and female.
He distinguishes clearly and fairly between the Manichæan ideal that underlies so much of Eastern Monasticism and the ideal of self-discipline which never wholly vanished from the Christian form.
Conceiving of St. Francis as primarily the founder of the Franciscan Order, Mr. Adderley opens his narrative with an admirable sketch of the history of Monasticism in Europe, which is certainly the best thing in the book.
Moreover, monasticism encouraged whatever it thought would make the soul triumphant over the body, almost independent of it.
If Paganism glorified the body, monasticismdespised it.
But when, in consequence of the Arab invasion, the monasticism of those countries was cut off from intercourse with the rest of Christendom, it decayed.
There were Christian monks as early as the 3rd century, and before the end of the 4th monasticism (q.
The existence of monasticism made it possible at once to hold up a high moral standard before the world and to permit the ordinary Christian to be content with something lower.
Like the new theology and the new science of law, the new monasticism was also rooted in Latin soil.
Christian monasticism was spreading in western Europe in Augustine's time, and the monkist vows included "chastity".
Probably his influence was even greater than that of Saint Benedict in making monasticism into a powerful instrument for the restoration of social order in the Western world.
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