Some of Bede's homilies were collected by Paul the Deacon, and they were used in that form in the Monastic Office.

Monastic estates were called chos-gzhis (), linked to Buddhist monasteries, and were similar to priests or clergy castes of other societies.

Monastic communities were allowed to celebrate mass in private from 1209 onwards, and late in 1212 the viaticum for the dying was authorised.

Demand for manuscripts grew to an extent that the Monastic libraries were unable to meet with the demand, and began employing secular scribes and illuminators.

Monastic orders were permitted 1897, but the ban on Jesuits was only lifted 1956.

Monastic writers of the time accused Stigand of extorting money and lands from the church, and by 1066, the only estates richer than Stigand's were the royal estates and those of Harold Godwinson.

Between the 14th and 17th centuries, Polish settlers from northern Masovia moved to the southern territories of the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights that was previously the land of the Baltic Old Prussians who were conquered by the Teutonic Knights in the 13th and 14th centuries.

Douglas is twice referred to in the Monastic ' Chronicle of the Kings of Man and the Isles '; first in 1192, when the monks of St Mary's Abbey at Rushen, were transferred there for a four-year stay, then again in 1313, when Robert ( Bruce ), King of Scotland, spent the night at the ' monastery of Duglas ' on his way to seize Castle Rushen.

Monastic chroniclers often deplore depredations made by foreign armies and sometimes even those of their own rulers but some Scots forces were going beyond normal Norman ' harrying ' by systematically carrying off women and children as slaves.

Monastic vows and orders were outlawed in Article 5.

Prior to that, Prussian Landtag meetings were held in the Monastic state of the Teutonic Order.

Monastic practices and structures were very different: moreover monasteries played a much more important role in Britain and Ireland than on the continent, with abbots regarded as de facto leaders of the Church.

Since the kings of Poland remained Catholic and were the nominal heads of the City following the decay of the Monastic state of the Teutonic Knights, they authorized building the baroque Catholic Royal Chapel.

Monastic settlements were located at the site of Teine's fort, Land of the Monks ().

Monastic scapulars originated as aprons worn by medieval monks, and were later extended to habits for members of religious organizations, orders or confraternities.

Within the Cluniac Monastic Association, the cantors of the following generation like Adémar de Chabannes who was taught by his uncle Roger at Saint-Martial Abbey of Limoges ( Aquitaine ), developed a new diastematic neume notation which allowed to indicate the ligatures, even if they were separated by the vertical disposition according to their pitch class.

During this period around Saint Sophia Cathedral were erected bell tower, monastery canteen, bakery, House of Metropolitan, western gates ( Zborovsky gates ), Monastic Inn, Brotherhood campus and bursa ( seminary ).

Monastic orders, especially the Cistercians and the Carthusians, were important builders who disseminated the style and developed distinctive variants of it across Europe.

Whereas the Lübeckers provided the Order important logistic support with their ships, they were – except of in Elbing – else rather not involved in the establishment of the Monastic State.

Monastic studies were revived under Cardinal Bessarion and again in 1608.

While they were considerably larger than those in the Holy Roman Empire, they were much scarcer in the Monastic state of the Teutonic Knights.

Under each of the seven Monastic Abbots, there were an additional seven High Jurists ( priests ) who served relentlessly, performing whatever duties were assigned to them.

Monastic figures had historically held important roles in the social and political makeup of Tibet, and though these roles have diminished since 1959, many Tibetans continue to regard the Panchen Lama as a significant political, as well as spiritual figure due to the role he traditionally plays in selecting the next Dalai Lama.

The unknown writer, though his opinion is of no value on the origin of the " Cursus ", may well have known about some of these of his own knowledge ; but through the seventh century there are indications of a tendency to adopt the Roman or the Monastic " cursus " instead of the Gallican, or to mix them up, a tendency which was resisted at times by provincial councils.

Monastic communities, from which these grants were taken, lost revenues and gained nothing in return, suffering from spiritual and temporal mismanagement.

The Monastic Rule of David prescribed that monks had to pull the plough themselves without draught animals, must drink only water eat only bread with salt and herbs and spend the evenings in prayer, reading and writing.

* Monastic rule, a collection of precepts that guides the life of monks or nuns in a religious order

* Monastic disciples who renounced their family and became the earliest monks of the Ramakrishna order — Narendranath Dutta ( Swami Vivekananda ), Rakhal Chandra Ghosh ( Swami Brahmananda ), Kaliprasad Chandra ( Swami Abhedananda ), Taraknath Ghoshal ( Swami Shivananda ), Sashibhushan Chakravarty ( Swami Ramakrishnananda ), Saratchandra Chakravarty ( Swami Saradananda ), Tulasi Charan Dutta ( Swami Nirmalananda ), Gangadhar Ghatak ( Swami Akhandananda ), Hari Prasana ( Swami Vijnanananda ) and others.

Monastic scapulars now form part of the habit of monks and nuns in many Christian orders.

* Barbara Harvey's Living and Dying in England 1100 – 1540: The Monastic Experience ( 1993 ) is a prosopography that draws a group picture of monastic life, centred on the aggregate experience of the monks of Westminster Abbey.

* Taking Monastic Vows Orthodox monks at Valaam Monastery

In turn, the Je Khenpo appoints, on the recommendation of the Dratshang Lhentshog ( Commission for the Monastic Affairs ), monks with the nine qualities of a spiritual master and accomplished in ked-dzog ( stages of development and completion in Vajrayana practice ) as the Five Lopons.

The Monastic Abbey Casket is designed after the caskets used by the monks of Saint Meinrad.

The Monastic Brotherhood consists of the celibate clergy of the monastery who are led by an abbot.

The town alternated between Poland and the Monastic state of the Teutonic Knights during the Polish-Teutonic Wars, and returned to Polish control after the Second Peace of Thorn ( 1466 ), who gave it as lien to the Dukes of Pomerania.

Monastic life had declined to a low ebb in England in the ninth century, partly due to the ravages caused by Viking attacks, and partly because of a preference for secular clergy, who were cheaper and were thought to better serve the spiritual needs of the laity.

* Dom Columba Marmion OSB, Christ the Ideal of the Monk – Spiritual Conferences on the Monastic and Religious Life ( Engl.

Monastic influence accounts for the practice of adding to the reading of a biblical passage some patristic commentary or exposition.

The Monastic Rule of St. Columbanus is much shorter than that of St. Benedict, consisting of only ten chapters.

Monastic deacons are called hierodeacons, monastic priests are called hieromonks.

* Monastic Wisdom.

Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights.

Today new expressions of Christian monasticism, many of which ecumenical, are developing in places such as the Bose Monastic Community in Italy, the Monastic Fraternities of Jerusalem throughout Europe, and the Taizé Community in France, and the mainly Evangelical Protestant New Monasticism.

* Abbot Gasquet's English Monastic Life.

* Zarnecki, George ( 1985 ), The Monastic World: The Contributions of The Orders.

Around 1447 – 1454 he painted Scenes of Monastic Life for the church San Miniato al Monte, Florence.

* Scenes of Monastic Life ( c. 1447 – 1454 ) -

During the next three years all of Pomesania was conquered and made part of the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights.

* Spijker, ' Learning by Experience: Twelfth Century Monastic Ideas ' in Centres of Learning, 1995, pp. 197 – 206.

The peninsula became part of the Duchy of Prussia when Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach, the 37th Grand Master, secularized the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights in 1525.

In 1440, the gentry of Thorn formed the Prussian Confederation, and in 1454 rose with the Confederation against the Monastic state of the Teutonic Knights in the Thirteen Years ' War.

Being conquered by Danes and Germans in 1227, Estonia was ruled initially by Denmark in the north, by the Livonian Order, an autonomous part of the Monastic state of the Teutonic Knights and Baltic German ecclesiastical states of the Holy Roman Empire.

English translation by Timothy Miller, in J. Thomas and A. C. Hero, eds., Byzantine Monastic Foundation Documents (= Dumbarton Oaks Studies 35 ) ( Washington, 2000 ), I. 67 – 83.