Monasteries and monastic orders: 2000 years of Christian art and culture

Early monasticism

Monasticism in the early Middle Ages

Benedictine monasticism in the high Middle Ages

Hermitic lifestyles and other reform movements of the 11th century

The new orders of the 12th century

The military orders

Female orders

The Mendicant orders

Byzantine monasticism

The late Middle Ages, the Reformation, and the Counter-Reformation

The culmination of the Benedictine baroque

Monasticism and life in religious orders in the 19th and 20th centuries.