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410 pages • first pub 2025 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780300208566
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 14 January 2025
Description
Andrew Jotischky traces the history of monastic life from its origins in the fourth century to the sixteenth. He shows how religious houses sheltered the poor and elderly, cared for the sick, and educated the young. They were centres of intellectu...
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410 pages • first pub 2025 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780300208566
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 14 January 2025
Description
Andrew Jotischky traces the history of monastic life from its origins in the fourth century to the sixteenth. He shows how religious houses sheltered the poor and elderly, cared for the sick, and educated the young. They were centres of intellectu...