What was life like for a medieval monk? Why would someone want to be one?

>2bh
hold on, testing the filter

desu

Well, in that case, clearly not the same at all

youtube.com/watch?v=0JnCO0OlhlE

You might be on the verge of beginning a pedantic rant. Any time, from the 5th to the 15th centuries, monasteries were religious learning institutions. In fact, their very existence makes the term "dark ages" a sort of misnomer, because records were kept and (what passed for) modern science prevailed.

Well, no, I'm not trying to be pedantic. A monk in the 5th century would have lived an almost completely different life than a monk in the 15th century

It sounds pretty comfy when you describe it like that

how so?

>an almost completely different

So not completely different, just different in a few ways, not even close to completely.

>read about god and transcribe works by candlelight.

>read about god and transcribe works by candlelight.

pick one

Monks where those who where useless in the society and couldnt fit in. Also they where bicurious. Today they would be called cock-fashinated betas

Cushy compared to the fields, and they still drank and fucked