THE CITY ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE OCEAN A hermit from the monastery of Sceta approached Abbot Theodore: “I know exactly what the purpose of life is, he said. I know what God asks…
Apex and Crisis: Monasticism in a Fundamental Period of the Middle Ages At the end of the Carolingian Empire, with the rise of feudalism, as André Váuchez (1) points out, between the tenth and eleventh…