Medieval nun

Habits of various nuns. French Carmelite. The Hospital Sisters. Nun of the Order of Magdalene. The Premonstratensians. St. Catherine's Hospitaller.

In North March, your life begins at Roxeter Abbey. The monks and nuns offer hospitality to travelers, visitors, and those seeking sanctuary or wishing to retreat from the world. Role play your entr…

Life in medeval times were tough situations. Everyone excluding royalty and aristocratic society, lived in humble homes with humble lives. But some of the most humiliating lives were lived in the nunneries and monostaries. With little warmth in the rural monostaries, monks lived lonely, quiet lives working for their God. A medieval nunnery was very similar to a monastery, which was a place where people would gather to worship God. People would also use this time to get away from their life's…

In medieval times, women who had no desire to marry and risk the uncertainties of childbirth had the option of becoming a nun – well, assuming their father was amenable to the idea. In some cases, women who had every desire to marry and have babies still ended up as nuns, usually because their father […]