monachism

Definitions

Examples

• The spirit of monachism is as distinguishable as if the cowled ghosts of the victims were actually seen flitting along the aisles.

• The two arms of the hierarchy by which the Middle Ages were governed had been chivalry and monachism.

• Though there were many good points in monachism, the Fathers were not slow to point out its defects.

• The thirteenth century saw the rise of a new class of religious orders, actuated by different views from monachism.

• Lrins, the great centre of monachism in Gaul, and Canterbury under Theodore, had been his schools.