What does it mean to be a medievalist?

Unrelated question : why did English nobles and rich merchants let these monasteries fall in ruin instead of reconverting into awesome palaces ?

Be a historian who specialises in the study of medieval history?

>>1475008
>Tfw Egyptologist
Best job imaginable.

>>1475015
You can't take a house of god to be your own house.

That's just all kinds of wrong.

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studying the great sword masters of the sengoku jidai era is no easy task, kid

uncovering ancient wisdom is not for the likes of starbucks sipping facebook updating normies

>>1475015
because they were expensive af to maintain

>>1475015

Because they weren't hipsters. They wanted to live in houses.

>>1475015

Because you already have an awesome palace and it makes you more money to let a flock of sheet live in the ruins.

>>1475036
I imagine the abbots desacralized them when they left.
>>1475069
So are all palaces.
>>1475171
Your palace is generally not as awesome. And there's a lot of upstarts and successful second sons that had to make new ones.

It just seems like an awful waste.

>>1475015
Because a monastery wasn't built for comfortable living. It'd be like turning a college lecture building into a house.