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slash UK slash AI for people. Welcome to the History Extra podcast, fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History Magazine.

Monastries and convents were a common site throughout medieval Europe and beyond.

But who were they for? What did they do? And how did life in them change over a thousand years or so

that these institutions were at their height? In today's episode, Professor Andrew Jatiski,

author of the book The Monastic World, speaks to Emily Briffitt about monastic life from its early

origins in the 4th century, right up to the 16th century,

delving into the lives of both monks and nuns who lived and worked in these religious houses.

So today we're going to be talking all about the monastic world.

Now, can you tell me how significant were these religious houses to the medieval way of life?

Well, monasteries and convents for women, and I'll use the term monasteries really to describe both,

monasteries were everywhere as physical presences in the medieval world.

They were in every town, they were in the countryside. It would have been

virtually impossible for most medieval people not to have seen, been near, experienced a monastery

in some form or other. So as simply as physical presences, they were very familiar to people.

But more than that, they also provided a great deal for society. Obviously, they're places of

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