The Medieval Monastery by Roger Rosewell

Author:Roger Rosewell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The Medieval Monastery
ISBN: 9780747812883
Publisher: Osprey Publishing

Artist’s impression of the Wenlock Priory laver.

Flavouring was limited to salt or vinegars in case richly flavoured foods induced sluggishness and distracted monks from prayer and work.

Although red meat was never served in the refectory, monks were not vegetarians in the modern sense. The origins of the ban lay in fears that eating meat would arouse sexual and other physical desires and temptations. As a result meat was initially only served in the infirmary where it was thought to assist a patient’s recovery, but these rules were gradually relaxed during the later Middle Ages. From the late twelfth century onwards Benedictine and Cluniac monks were eating meat in a special chamber, known as a misericord (‘mercy’) with Cistercians following suit in the early fourteenth century. Once again the Carthusians were different, refusing to eat meat under any circumstances, including serving it to the sick, in case its pleasures tempted monks to feign illnesses!

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