A Brief History of Western

 Monasticism

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Written by Robert Jones

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An Anglican Church Service begins in the ruins of the Abbey Church at Byland Abbey, a former Cistercian monastery in North Yorkshire, England (founded 1134; dissolved Nov. 1538)
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Keywords in http://www.sundayschoolcourses.com/monastic/monastic85x11.pdf

Abbess

Abbey

Abbot

Benedictines

Bernard of Clairvaux

Canons

Carthusians

Celtic Monasticism

Cenobites

Cistercian

Cistercians

Cluniac

Crypt

Desert monks

Dissolution of the Monasteries

Dominicans

Dorter

Ephrata Cloister

Essenes

Flying buttress

Franciscans

Frater

Galilee

Gatehouse

Hermits (or anchorites)

Hilda of Whitby

Joseph of Arimathea

King Henry VIII

Knights Hospitalers

Knights Templar

Lay brother

Monastery

Monk

Nazirites

Prior

Priory

Refectory

Rere-dorter

Rood screen

Rule of Benedict

St. Antony

St. Augustine

St. Benedict

St. Columba

St. Dominic

St. Francis of Assisi

Transepts

Trappist

Warming house

Zadok