► The Benedictine life gives as much time to work (manual or intellectual) as to meditation (prayer or reading the Bible): "ora et labora". So the day of the monks is divided between work, prayer and reading the Bible.
► The monasteries are at the peak of their glory, spiritual, political and economic, in the 12th and 13th centuries. And until the 12th century, the abbeys were the main, if not the only places for the development, formation and transmission of cultural knowledge.
00:00 - Introduction
00:15 - What is a monk?
00:44 - Origins
01:22 - Saint Benoit's rule
02:27 - A monk's day
05:56 - The organization of an abbey
07:36 - Monks' clothes
08:12 - The role of monasteries
09:00 - Some famous abbeys
► Sources:
- Monks and Religious in the Middle Ages, presented by Jacques Berlioz, Seuil edition;
- Monks and monasteries in the West in the Middle Ages, Philippe Racinet, Ellipses editions;
- Life of the monks in the Middle Ages, Maurice Meuleau, Ouest-France editions;
- Thoronet Abbey, Nathalie Molina, Heritage Editions
► Visits:
- the "three Provençal sisters": Thoronet abbey, Silvacane abbey and Sénanque abbey
- from Fontfroide Abbey (Aude)
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