Julia Barrow wrote...
There was no Benedictine order as such in the earlier middle ages. It only
became necessary to define one after the appearance of the Cistercians,
Carthusians, Augustinians and so forth in the late eleventh and early twelfth
centuries
Why were such orders introduced into England - were they part of the Norman
conquest or was it a much larger re organization of the monastic life which
took place throughout Europe at this time that England was just part of ?
Simon Marchini
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