In 2014, as part of the Kortlagning klaustur á Íslandi (Mapping Monasticism in Iceland) archaeological project, bulk samples retrieved from various sites associated with Icelandic monasticism were subsampled for pollen analysis. The objective was to discern something about character past vegetation that surrounded under investigation well detect presence exotic derived plant species medicinal, ...

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Over the second half of sixteenth century a new form monasticism, idiorrhythmia (“living according to one’s own devices”), seemed be spreading across Orthodox monasteries Eastern Mediterranean. The communal regime practiced for centur