Reconstructing Past Monastic Life: Volume 1: Bioarchaeology, Life and Death: New Trends from Archaeological, Bioanthropological and Documentary Perspectives

Explores health and lifeways in monastic communities, focusing on palaeopathological insights into well-being, disabilities, and burial practices across various periods.

Monasticism is a form of religious life in which participants renounce worldly activities to dedicate themselves primarily to spiritual matters, living in small communities subject to a set of rules and isolated from the secular world. Christian monasticism, which originated at the end of the 3rd century in Egypt and North A...