The Monk

What time period is the novel The Monk set in?

Is the time in which the novel is set different to that of when it was written? Why?

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I think it was set in a cathedral in Madrid in the 1700's. Check this out:

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I think, based on the references to inquisition and Spanish settlements in the West Indies, the time frame could be sometime in the 1600s; also, deriving from the highway robbery scene and description of the German small principalities.