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"Medieval Monasticism" as a book category covers the religious communities, institutions, practices and cultural roles of monks, nuns, friars and convents across roughly the early to late Middle Ages (c. 5th–15th centuries). It includes studies of monastic rules and reforms (e.g., Benedictine, Cistercian, Cluniac, Franciscan, Dominican, Orthodox monasticism), daily liturgy and devotional life, asceticism and cloistering, and the material culture of monasteries—architecture, manuscripts, libraries, art and agriculture. Works in the category also treat monasteries’ social, economic and political functions (landholding, patronage, charity, education and manuscript production), gendered experiences of religious life, regional diversity and networks, and archaeological or palaeographic evidence. Genres range from institutional histories and biographies of notable abbots/abbesses to theological, liturgical, and codicological studies, as well as interdisciplinary analyses situating monasticism within broader medieval society.

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