"monastery" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Some of the scholars quickly settled in Irish monasteries, while others wandered from one master to another in search of knowledge.
- Commonly Irish monasteries were established by grants of land to an abbot or abbess, who came from a local noble family.
- Students would sometimes travel from faraway lands to enter the Irish monasteries.
- With their extensive libraries, Irish monasteries attracted students from all over the world.
- During the early seventh century, Irish monasteries exercised a virtual monopoly on the teaching of Greek.
- From the 9th century, waves of Viking raiders plundered Irish monasteries and towns.
- Writing in the clear, rounded be script of the Irish monasteries, he could copy a text at roughly fifty lines an hour.
- Barnewall's other mission in London was to deal with the dissolution of the Irish monasteries.
- He sat on the Commission for the surrender of the Irish monasteries during 1539-1541, and himself did well out of their suppression.
- Vikings started attacking Irish monasteries famous for learning in 793.
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