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double monastery

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noun

  1. a religious community of both men and women who live in separate establishments under the same superior and who worship in a common church.


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Hild was a Northumbrian Deborah whose counsel was sought even by kings; and the double monastery over which she ruled became a seminary of bishops and priests.

From History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 by Green, John Richard

The term was also sometimes applied to twin monasteries for men; Bede uses it in this sense with reference to Wearmouth and Yarrow, while he generally speaks of a double monastery as "monasterium virginum."

From Early Double Monasteries A Paper read before the Heretics' Society on December 6th, 1914 by Stoney, Constance

It is here, then, that another brother and sister figure as the founders of a double monastery.

From Early Double Monasteries A Paper read before the Heretics' Society on December 6th, 1914 by Stoney, Constance

It is uncertain whether Bischofsheim, in Germany, under the abbess Lioba, was a double monastery, but the arrangement is known to have existed in Germany in the C8 and later.

From Early Double Monasteries A Paper read before the Heretics' Society on December 6th, 1914 by Stoney, Constance

The story throws a good deal of light on the way in which a large double monastery was organised.

From Early Double Monasteries A Paper read before the Heretics' Society on December 6th, 1914 by Stoney, Constance

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