The Monastic World: A 1,200-Year History by Andrew Jotischky voyages With its gentle details and

With its gentle details and nostalgic charm

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New York Times bestselling author of Irresistible and Drunk Tank Pink and NYU Stern School of Business Professor of Marketing and Psychology

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The Monastic World: A 1,200-Year History by Andrew Jotischky voyages With its gentle details andA major new history of medieval monasticism, from the fourth to the sixteenth century From the late Roman Empire onwards, monasteries and convents were a common sight throughout Europe. But who were monasteries for? What kind of people founded and maintained them? And how did monasticism change over the thousand years or so of the Middle Ages? Andrew Jotischky traces the history of monastic life from its origins in the fourth century to the sixteenth.