This is a fascinating interview with Brother Giles Conacher, OSB, Prior of Pluscarden Abbey in Moray, Scotland. Pluscarden is a Benedictine monastery and the only medieval monastery in Britain still inhabited by monks that is used for its original purpose.
The conversation provides an insight into the life of a monk, the Benedictine charism, monasticism, and Conacher's thoughts about early Christianity, technology, time, clocks and western thought. The interview was conducted by Alan Macfarlane, who taught in the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University, and is now Emeritus Professor of Anthropological Science and a Life Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.
