Chapter VIII: Monastic Influence.

Chapter 8 of the book "The Liturgical Context of Early European Drama" is presented. It explores monasticism including the monastic influence and their liturgical lifestyle as well as the monastic daily schedule. It highlights the Divine Office, which played an important part of the horarium of the community and its context, which included the entire Psalter, the entire Old and New Testaments and the Church's year, which began on the first Sunday of Advent.