With a limited economic base, nonetheless, the investment in creating a cosmology within the monastery in the early 9th century is truly extraordinary.
As a result, they came under attack from evangelicals and their houses were eventually dissolved along with the monasteries.
The suppression of the monasteries is not one of them.
The letterwriter's portrayal of the monastery as ripped apart by factionalism is undoubtedly more accurate.
Giving to monasteries tempered the individualism, and targeted the charity.
The conduct of the gentlemen was unfavourably compared with that of the monasteries.
The monastery itself provided accommodation for the symposium participants, thanks to the hospitality of the abbess.
In the western city, new churches reoccupied the sites which had been used during penal times, themselves often the location of medieval monasteries.
