Medieval and modern times; an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time (1919) (14802839373)

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Title: Medieval and modern times; an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Robinson, James Harvey, 1863-1936
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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Fig. i 6. Monastery of Val di Cristo This monastery in southern Spain has two cloisters, the main one lies to the left. One can see how the buildings were surrounded by vegetable gardens and an orchard which supplied the monks with food. Compare picture of another monastery (Fig. 26, below) So outside the group of buildings around the cloister would be The out-found the garden, the orchard, the mill, a fish pond, and fields tion; 0f thefor raising grain. There were also a hospital for the sick and a monasteryguest house for pilgrims or poor people who happened to comealong. In the greater monasteries there were also quarterswhere a king or nobleman might spend a few nights in comfort.
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6o The Monks and their Missionary Work 61 Missionary Work of the Monks 12. The first great undertaking of the monks was the con- The monksversion of those German peoples who had not yet been won over aries1SS1°nto Christianity. These the monks made not merely Christians,but also dutiful subjects of the pope. In this way the strengthof the Roman Catholic Church was greatly increased. The firstpeople to engage the attention of the monks were the heathenGerman tribes who had conquered the once Christian Britain. The islands which are now known as the kingdom of Great Early BritainBritain and Ireland were, at the opening of the Christian era,occupied by several Celtic peoples of whose customs and re-ligion we know almost nothing. Julius Caesar commenced theconquest of the islands (55 B.C.) ; but the Romans never suc-ceeded in establishing their power beyond the wall which theybuilt, from the Clyde to the Firth of Forth, to keep out thewild tribes of the North. Even south of the wall the