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Separate But Equal: Cistercian Lay Brothers 1120-1350 (cistercian Studies)

Full title: Separate But Equal: Cistercian Lay Brothers 1120-1350 (cistercian Studies)
ISBN: 9780879072469
ISBN 10: 0879072466
Authors: James France
Publisher: Cistercian Publications
Num. pages: 471
Binding: Paperback
Language: en
Published on: 2012

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Synopsis

Who Were The Lay Brothers? -- Manual Labor Of Monks Before The Lay Brothers -- Illiterati -- Barbati -- Two Monasteries Within The Precincts Of The Monastery -- Assigned To Plows And Mattocks -- Separate But Equal -- Vitae Of Lay Brothers And Lay Brothers In Vitae -- Virtues And Vices -- The Onslaught Of Demons -- Visions Of The Other World -- Not Conversi But Perversi -- Decline And Near Extinction. By James France. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 345-358) And Index.