Name: How to Live as a Medieval Monk
Uploaded: 2018-05-13T04:22:27.000Z
Duration: 4 min 14 s
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and a marvellous freedom from the tumult of the world.

We're here to discover what it was like to

Now I understand you that want to learn something about our way of life.

is to wear the same sort of clothes that monks wear.

Would you like to come and dress as monks?

You look very, very smart now in your monks habits.

My name means, noble strength, it's Anglo Saxon.

My family come from the north of England and for many years they have been devoted to the northern Saints, especially St Cuthbert.

When you become a Monk you leave the world behind

your family and instead you come to an Abbey

and devote your life to the glory of God.

We have one meal a day and that's normally the middle of the day

and that meal is a sort of... I suppose you would call it porridge.

And then we add whatever vegetables we happen to have depending on the season.

So what you end up with is a sort of porridge with vegetables and fish in it

By wearing white, we are wearing the colour that wool is when it comes off a sheep's back,

so that makes it the cheapest so that's a way of showing that we believe very strongly in our vow of poverty.

Do you have to be silent all the time and if you do how do you communicate?

stresses that silence is very very important for Monks, because it stops us gossiping and lets us concentrate instead on God

so we're not allowed to speak at certain times of the day.

We have a set of signs that we use to communicate with each other,

so that people still know what's going on.

So see if you can guess what these might be the signs for.

So you see we can communicate with each other quite easily without the use of words.

Well, you have done very, very well and you have learnt

all about the life of a Monk in the Abbey.