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?
Is the time in which the novel is set different to that of when it was written? Why?
I think it was set in a cathedral in Madrid in the 1700's. Check this out:
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.