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Why did medieval monks write histories?

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What Do the Surviving Sources Tell Us About Mediaeval Monasticism?

These days, fortunately, increasingly digitized repositories of mediaeval manuscripts er across the world. But quite often, this can lead to a situation where we are in no position any more to establish wood a particular abbot or abbos wrote. So i guess that kind of the fun and frustration of your research project is your seeing little littl hints and tipbits sources that you're probably never going to see. Tha, sne atatit's a very big question that ar i guess.

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