“…This anti-ecumenical propaganda organized by monks is supported by a part of the married clergy, their parishes, the media, and some politicians. …”

“…However, in the late eleventh century, she shows, the canons of Saint-Martin (where the saint's relics resided) and the monks of Marmoutier (which Martin had founded) took control of the cult and produced new legends and rituals to strengthen their corporate interests.Since the basilica and the abbey differed in their spiritualities, structures, and external ties, the canons and monks elaborated and manipulated Martin's cult in quite different ways. …”

“…The writing of the past between monks and laypeople is a direct testimony of the current vitality of medieval studies in Brazil, especially those dedicated to new historical problems about the Portuguese kingdom in the late centuries of the Middle Ages. …”

“…Since the basilica and the abbey differed in their spiritualities, structures, and external ties, the canons and monks elaborated and manipulated Martin's cult in quite different ways. …”

“…This book offers the first exhaustive investigation of Justinian’s personal relations to monkhood and the role of monks in religious and legislative politics…”

“…These letters show the two historians, and monks of Melk abbey, successfully acquiring membership of the European Republic of Letters, but they also document first serious conficts within the monastery itself. …”

“…In September 07, the Burmese monks led a powerful protest against their government, which was brutally put down. …”

“…"Regulars and the Secular Realm" is a detailed account of the monks' plight, chronicling the injustices perpetrated by government officials as well as the general antagonism towards the Catholic Church. …”

“…In southeastern Portugal, overlooking the Rio Guadianaand surrounded by picturesque grassland scenery, stands a former Franciscan monastery, the Convento Sao Franciscode Mertola. The monks abandoned it in 1834; by over thepast decades a Dutch family of artists had turned it intoa miniature paradise for flora and fauna, a kind of Noah̕sArc for endangered species. …”

“…This is a collection of 23 discourses, addressed to monks, written in the Armenian language in probably the sixth century. …”

“…Based on this fundamental fact, this work examines the tension between the spiritual ambitions and the individual, community and institutional constraints of monks, regular canons and begging brothers, in the context of the Hispanic Middle Ages. …”

“…The essays in this book explore these and related questions through stories from the eastern Christian world of antiquity: monks and martyrs, families and congregations, and textual bodies from antiquity subject to modern interpretations…”

“…The Garb of Being investigates these questions through stories from the Eastern Christian world of antiquity: monks and martyrs, families and congregations, and textual bodies.-- Fordham University Press…”

“…The book focuses the period of the bishop's patronage in the 11th century, when the monastery and some of its members emerged in the context of the ecclesiastical reform, and continues with the study of the the Olivetan monks community, during the 14th-16th centuries, to arrive at the important structural and functional, but also semantic, transformations of the monument between the 18th century and the contemporary times…”

“…In fact monks, monastic nuns, nuns, friars, maids and servants had time to cook and it is possible that many, or at least some, appreciated the preparation of savoury dishes and especially sweets. …”

“…Aelred, abbot of the Yorkshire Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx from 1147 to 1167, wrote six spiritual treatises, seven historical treatises, and 182 liturgical sermons, most of which he delivered as chapter talks to his monks. Translations of the first twenty-eight of these sermons appeared in CF 58 in 2001, translated by Theodore Berkeley and M. …”