Nuns In The Middle Ages

The nuns where women of religion during the Middle Ages. Nuns lived in places called convents, where they would fulfill their daily duties. Many nuns lived in the convents, which included a church, praying rooms, and dormitories. They would wear black veils, stockings and shoes, almost identical except to what modern day nuns attire is, the formal name of this wear is a habit worn with a leather belt. Sometimes you would find nuns wearing more elaborate attire with colors and patters. They had different casual modest clothes for sleeping. Children would come to the convent, where the nuns studied, prayed, and lived, at a young age to start training. They took three vows; chastity, poverty, and obedience. They would not allow girls to come to the convent who didn't have the money and resources to help the convent in times of need and to expand. All girls therefore would come from wealthy noble families. The …show more content…
I covered the nuns lives in the United Kingdom and Europe. Today many women don't choose the life of becoming nuns but women still do. Nuns today still follow the same ruled and guidelines, they wear the same thing, pray as many times a day. The only modern difference is that now the have technology to communicate more with the outside world, they don't garden and raise livestock, or at least most don't, and get out more to do community service almost daily. Nowadays different types of nuns are still in existence but it is very rare to see some of these types, for example the Anchoersses women. The nuns chose this life in hopes of "answered God's calling to serve Jesus Christ". Some of the women chose to become a nun because they didn't have arranged marriages or didn't want to do what their parents had in mind for them in the future. They wanted to carry out the mission of serving for their lord with bettering the community socially, religiously, and