0 a building in which monks live and worship --
1 a building or group of buildings in which monks (= religious men) live and worship --
Third and finally, she was intent upon founding a new monastery, and it is this seemingly modest aim which best illuminates her overtly political ambitions.
The processing of wool, iron, and flax was done in monasteries or on large estates by serfs.
It also appears that the conflict was as much about policy, the monastery's ' way of keeping religion ', as about raw power.
The religious orders were also considered to be pillars of stability, particularly the monasteries.
A donor might also acquire confraternity and the right to be buried in the church, while the founder of a new monastery gained renown.
The combination of fair and religious feast will have brought people of all social ranks to the monastery at this time of the year.
Consequently, some of the abandoned monasteries were repopulated during their rule.
In the western city, new churches reoccupied the sites which had been used during penal times, themselves often the location of medieval monasteries.
