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media type="custom" key="19160498" Professor Walker is going to talk about the life of a British monk in the Middle Ages. **The life of a british monk (Marta Macau, Gisela) **

**The life of a British monk.**

__·The life in__ __a monastery__

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 -MEDIAVAL MONKS ===== All Medieval monks were clean shaven. They were distinguished by their partly shaved hair called 'tonsures'. Their hair was shaved except for a narrow strip round the head. Tonsures were a symbol of their renunciation of worldly fashion. A tonsure might also indicate that a monk had received clerical status.

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__· The Benedictine Religion__
======== The order of Saint Benedict is one of the most popular religiuous orders of the middle ages. It began in 529. The daily life of a monk follow a strict timetable. The Benedictine monks of St. Benedict followed the motto "Ora et labora". They spent time praying and working everyday. At about 2 a.m. they went up to pray. After his first prayer of the day, a little later in the morning they prayed at about 5 again and went to pray at 6. Then again at 9 a.m. they must go back to pray. At twelve o'clock there were three, and when they had lunch too.They prayed again at five o'clock and at six, when they went to sleep.

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