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In gender segregated monasteries, how common was there of rules against inviting members of the opposite sex? As I understand it, there existed many different e
by belorn 5y ago
In gender segregated monasteries, how common was there of rules against inviting members of the opposite sex? As I understand it, there existed many different enclosed religious orders, both for men and women, and most Christian orders seems from a glance to be exclusive.
Orphans who grow up in such places must have gotten some very strange perspective about the world.
- prometheus76 5y agoYou're right that most monastic orders are either for women or for men exclusively, but there were some monasteries in Britain that were for both genders in one community, and were led by female abesses, which was unusual. I'm not near my home library, so I can't get you a reference, but it definitely existed, but was definitely out of the ordinary.