MINIATURIST, English
(active in the 12th century)

Cistercian monks

12th century
Manuscript (Ms 5. 31.)
University Library, Cambridge

Monasteries were places of peace and order in the disturbed medieval society, organized round a routine of liturgy, work, study, and regular meetings, in which a man could spend his whole life.

This illustration on folio 113r of this manuscript depicts Cistercian monks at prayer and at work in the fields.