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Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." [2] It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. [3] Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of books or individual stories in the ...
Matthew Gregory Lewis (9 July 1775 – 14 or 16 May 1818) [1] was an English novelist and dramatist, whose writings are often classified as "Gothic horror". He was frequently referred to as "Monk" Lewis, because of the success of his 1796 Gothic novel The Monk. He also worked as a diplomat, politician and an estate owner in Jamaica.
The Monk: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, published in 1796 across three volumes. Written early in Lewis's career, it was published before he turned twenty, and he withheld his name from the first edition. It tells the story of a virtuous monk who gives into his lustful urges, setting off a chain of events that leave him ...
The Rule of Saint Benedict does explicitly call for monks to have ready access to books during two hours of compulsory daily reading and during Lent, when each monk is to read a book in its entirety. [31] Thus each monastery was to have its own extensive collection of books, to be housed either in armarium (book chests) or a more traditional ...
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Gildas (English pronunciation: / ˈ ɡ ɪ l d ə s /, Breton: Gweltaz; c. 450/500 – c. 570) [a] [b] — also known as Gildas Badonicus, Gildas fab Caw (in Middle Welsh texts and antiquarian works) and Gildas Sapiens (Gildas the Wise) — was a 6th-century British monk best known for his religious polemic De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, which recounts the history of the Britons before and ...
Individual names, birth dates, details that reflect a personal story behind. “A Bible is now sort of a book on the shelf,” McQuillen said. “But at one point, this was a very personal object”.
Little is known of John Westwyk's early life. The name Westwyk is almost certainly a toponym; he presumably came from the hamlet of Gorham-Westwick, two miles west of St Albans. [1] He was a monk of St Albans Abbey by 1380, and was most likely ordained between 1368 and 1379. [2] Like many monks, he was probably the son of a mid-ranking peasant ...