Monks and nuns could be recognized by their habits. Habits were special clothes, like uniforms. They often wore plain clothing, and a cross upon a chain around their necks. Some monks wore hair shirts as undershirts, to purposely scratch their skin and constantly remind them of the suffering that Jesus had done. Monks only had hair at the sides of there heads because when they went into the monastery it showed that they had nothing to hide from God.
In England, at Milton Abbey in Dorset around 1200, the Abbot was called Eustace. He had previously been sacrist at Middleton. Monks at that time included Thurstan, Ralph de Henecumb, William de Stokes, Richard, Robert, Adam, John the precentor and William the sacristan.
Most monks were known only by their first name (brother Adam, for example); some changed their name when they took their vows.
The heads of the Augustionian priory of Crabhouse in Norfolk included Catherine, Cecilia, Christine de Tilney, Agnes de Methelwold, Margaret Costayn, Olive de Swaffham and Matilda Talbot.
Nuns at the same nunnery included Joan, Agnes, Margaret and Cicely. There were likely never more than 10 nuns at any one time at Crabhouse.
Nuns and Monks were very important in medieval Society because they were healers physically and spiritually to pretty much anybody who needed it. They lived in large Church type buildings, but they were also partly hospitals. Sometimes they even taught kids.
Same as it is today to see to the religious education and souls of man. Monks often copied books by hand and wrote books. They were one of the few groups that could read and write. Some nuns and monks gave medical help when they could or took in children who had been left at their door/gate.
Females were nuns, males were monks.
Females were nuns, males were monks.
Buddhist monks and nuns did not have income earning jobs as they could not handle money or earn income. Their role in society was to help teach lay practioners but their ultimate job is to attain enlightenment.
Monks lived in an abbey or priory (headed by an Abbot or Prior); nuns lived in a nunnery or convent headed by an Abbess or Prioress.
Monks and nuns do the monks' and nuns' jobs now.
Nuns were more likely to be cloistered in their monasteries with very little contact with the outside world. As a group, monks had more freedom to live a secular kind of life if they wished.
You just call Monks Monks and Nuns Nuns. They don't have any other names.
Monasticism is a life of living apart from society in order to better worship.
Medieval Churches were important as that is where the townspeople payed their taxes. It is also where townspeople went to pray and attend sermons. It was important to the Nuns, Monks priests etc. as that is where they held sermons and preached God.
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Monks - monastery. Nuns - convent.
Monks for education for noble children. Nuns for nursing sick.