Monasticism Flashcards
Dom Perignon
A French monk credited for inventing Champagne.
Created by accident when he added additional sugar to the bottle as the wine fermented.
St Catherine’s at Mt. Sinai
Founded in 550 CE
widely considered the first monastery
Rule of St. Benedict
St. Benedict contributed a book of rules that is accepted as the way western monks should live to the present day.
Three major vows of monasticism?
Poverty: they would own nothing
Obedience: follow directions and avoid sex
Vow of silence
Refectory
The monastery dining hall.
Hermitage
Individuals were called hermits and they lived in a place called a hermitage.
Abbott
According, to the rules Abbots were seen as the father
Cloister
Surrounding the church, a walled in space used for meditation and prayer.
Cluniac v. Cistercian monks
Cluniacs built beautiful abbeys and decorated them with gorgeous stained glass
Cistercians resented the cluniacs’ show of wealth and built grand, but unadorned abbeys. They believe that denial of earthly pleasure will place them closer to God.
Scriptorium
A room set apart for writing where monks copied out books by hand.
Asceticism
The deliberate abandonment of worldly temptations
Monte Cassino
Founded by St. Benedict of Nursia
In Italy
First monastery in Europe
What types of work did monks engage in?
Garden work
St. Anthony the Great
Organized and founded the first monastery, St Catherine at Mt. Sind in Egypt.
Three-field system
Land would be divided into thirds
One will have one crop
Another will have a second crop
And the last third would be fallow
