The Gateway to the Middle Ages

A glowing of monasticism as it developed in the middle ages. Chapters include: Roman monasticism; Celtic monasticism, as it developed under such figures as Columban, 3the Saint afire with Irish enthusiasm2; St. Benedict, the greatest of the monks, who established a pattern of the religious life still in existence; and St. Gregory the Great, greatest of the popes, who more than any other man prepared the See of Rome for its triumphant emergence in the Middle Ages.