What was the daily life of a medieval monk?

Answer 1

Different monks had different responsibilities and tasks, according to their vocation. They all spent several hours of the day at prayer, in contemplative meditation and attending holy services in the monastery church. But apart from this, their tasks varied. Some were scribes who wrote out books or manuscripts by hand, these volumes being religious works, histories, social chronicles, health care and a variety of other subjects. Others farmed the surrounding monastery land, ploughing, sowing crops or tending livestock. Still others were 'physics' or 'apothecaries', who ran infirmaries to tend to the sick or injured, both within the monastic community and for the local population, providing medicinal aid and conducting rudimentary surgery. Some monks were tutors to lay brethren and also to the local populace, educating them in theology, health care, agricultural practices and so on. Others helped to run and maintain the monastery or abbey, as cooks, cleaners, builders, stonemasons, administrators etc. In short, they provided a complete service in every aspect of civilised living, both for themselves and for the surrounding community.

Answer 2

The daily life of medieval monks were to copy books by hand, to pray at certain time in a day and to go to church. They lived in a place called a scriptorium

Answer 3

pray most of the time, and follow rules.