Dr. Lauren Mancia (Associate Professor of History; Brooklyn College; City University of New York)

Before the Shakers: Monastic Practice in the European Middle Ages.

Eight hundred years before the Shakers, European Christian monks, living within a monastery or cathedral built to allow divine light to enter, created communities separated from the world to work and pray together and strive toward perfect. What common ground did the Shaker shaker with earlier monastic communities?

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