14 sentences with 'monasteries'
Example sentences and phrases with the word monasteries and other words derived from it.
• « In the future, many monasteries became economic powerhouses, owning large tracts of land and selling their produce at a healthy profit. »
• « More important than their economic productivity, at least from the perspective of the history of ideas, is that monasteries became major centres of learning, especially in Western Europe after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. »
• « Heraclius began by seizing land from wealthy landowners and monasteries in Asia Minor, and then used the seized lands as a base for new territories from which to recruit soldiers. »
• « The Norsemen, soon to be known as Vikings, burst into the consciousness of other Europeans during the 8th century, attacking unprotected Christian monasteries in the 790s, with the first major raid in 793 and subsequent attacks in the following two years. »
• « In the early years of the Viking period they tended to attack in small groups, relying on speed and stealth to plunder monasteries and settlements. As the decades passed, raiding bands gave way to large-scale invasion forces, numbering hundreds of ships and thousands of warriors. »
• « Unfortunately for the monks of Europe, silver was most often used for sacred objects in the monasteries, making the monasteries the favourite targets of the Viking raiders. »
• « Essentially, the major orders came to resemble armed merchant houses as much as monasteries, and there is no doubt that many of their members did very poor work in fulfilling their vows of poverty, obedience and chastity. Similarly, the rulers of the Latin Principalities made little effort to win over their Muslim and Jewish subjects. »
• « In essence, many monasteries and convents became the most dynamic and commercially successful institutions in their home regions. »
• « Generations of European elites granted land, in particular, to monasteries and convents during their lifetime or as part of their posthumous bequests. The result was the staggering statistic that monasteries owned 20% of the arable land in Western Europe in the late Middle Ages. »
• « In addition, monasteries had been very successful in buying or receiving land as a gift; by the late 15th century, some 20% of the land in the western kingdoms was owned by monasteries. »
• « It also gave Henry VIII an excuse to seize Catholic lands and wealth, especially those of the wealthy monasteries of England, which financed the crown and its subsequent military and naval development in the reign of his daughter Elizabeth. »
• « The new fervour led to a revival of religious orders focused on reaching out to the common people rather than remaining sequestered from the public in monasteries and convents. »
• « In the process, Henry VIII had seized an enormous amount of wealth from English Catholic institutions, mainly monasteries, and used it to finance his own military development. »