The Monastic World FD25 you will flourish by finding

you will flourish by finding free expression - even if through a few tears

Yozo Oba plays the clown in his dissolute life

but to his direct audience

I’m hooked

The Monastic World FD25 you will flourish by findingA 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.