The Monastery
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| Originally published | 1820 |
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| Authors | Walter Alva Scott |
| Preceded by | Ivanhoe |
| Followed by | The Abbot |
| Genres | Historical Fiction |
| Publishers | Archibald Constable |
| John Ballantyne | |
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| ID | 2418706 |
About The Monastery
The Monastery: a Romance is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott. Along with The Abbot, it is one of Scott's Tales from Benedictine Sources and is set in the time of Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Elizabethan period.
Kosovo and Serbia row over monastery gun battle
... The shooting began at about 03:00 local time (01:00 GMT), after Kosovan police said they arrived in Banjska, where about 30 heavily armed gunmen had earlier barricaded themselves in The Monastery near the Serbian border...
King Charles: Why does the monarch need a coronation?
... In a possible nod to other faiths, they were grown at The Monastery of Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem, where the King s grandmother Princess Alice is buried...
Sacred coronation oil will be animal-cruelty free
... It also has a royal family significance, partly using olives grown on the Mount of Olives at The Monastery of Mary Magdalene, which is where the King s grandmother, Princess Alice, is buried...
The nun and the monk who fell in love and married
... The Monastery was run by Carmelite nuns from an order that had origins in the 12th Century and where the life was particularly spartan, secluded and strict - but she decided that was precisely the life she wanted to lead...
Medieval necklace found near Northampton 'internationally important'
... " Early Medieval period timeline: • 410 AD: Roman rule of Britain ends• 5th-6th Centuries: People from modern day Germany, southern Scandinavia and The Netherlands settle in southern and eastern Britain• Late 6th-7th Centuries: Christianity gradually spreads across southern and eastern Britain and starts to appear in elite burials• 640-680 AD: The Harpole Treasure, a high-status burial, is buried in Northamptonshire• 793 AD: A Viking raid on The Monastery at Lindisfarne, off the coast of modern-day Northumberland, marks the start of Viking raids on Britain• 899 AD: King Alfred the Great dies• 1066 AD: William the Conqueror defeats Harold and becomes King of England, ending the Early Medieval periodConservators are continuing to examine and conserve the finds, which will be donated to the Northamptonshire Archaeology Resource Centre...
Ukraine monastery raid as SBU targets Russian agents
... The Monastery, which is a Unesco World Heritage site, was one of a number of Orthodox churches raided on Tuesday, as authorities responded to complaints that clergy had been glorifying Russia and could be in league with the Kremlin...
I dream of watching Manchester United but know I never will
... " He started his training while still living with his parents a year before he moved into The Monastery...
Covid: Romania's health system torn apart by pandemic
... " There are currently three cases in The Monastery, one aged 78, another 35, another 30...