Cutaways of the monastic community at Glendalough, Ireland, 9th century AD (Giorgio Albertini)
Diagrams, cutaways, or architecture
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Kinda makes me curious though upon monks such as Trappists who specialised in brewing. I mean, watered-down beer was pretty much potable water across much of the pre-Ren and post-Ren reality, no?
Monastic communities often traded the goods they produced to a pretty broad selection of outside communities.
Oh, wait– memory unlocked!
Wasn’t much of Euro medieval brewing entrusted to women?
Yep! As it was a task that could be done 'in the home', it was considered a respectable profession for both married women and widows.