Slide 1Slide 2Slide 3Slide 4Slide 5Slide 6Slide 7Slide 8Slide 9Slide 10Slide 11Definition of a monk: A man who is a member of a brotherhood living in a monastery and devoted to a discipline prescribed by his order The Benedictine Rule asks these things from the life of a monk: Poverty, chastity, obedience, labor and prayerTraditional Celtic KnotMonasteries•Began appearing all across Ireland in the second half of the sixth century•Place where learning and worship could take place• Provided a link between the community and the church•Initially emerged because many religiously-minded men wanted solitude and time away from the worldMost Famous Monasteries•Clonard, Clonmacnois, and Clonfert•Established in the sixth century•3 leading educational monasteries•Known to train men to become brilliant scribes, artists and thinkersClonmacnois•Founded by St. Ciaran in 543Clonard•Founded by St. Finnian in 520Clonfert•Founded by St. Brendan in 557Music•Very important in the life of a monkLife of a monk•Some lived in solitude•Called hermits because they would retire to live an isolated life of prayer•Others became coenobites, retiring to a strict rule of life in the communityIlluminated Manuscripts•Illustrated copies of the gospels•These manuscripts required the help of multiple workers: scribes, artists, metal workers, sculptors and book binders•These took many years to completeThe Book of MarkReferencesThe Peoples of Ireland from Prehistory to Modern Times, Laim De Paor http://proquest.umi.com.ezproxy.vccs.edu Irish History for Dummies, Mike CroninThe Course of Irish History, T.W Moody and F.X.
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