LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MEDIEVAL WOMEN WRITERS
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it made them more valuable sources of information
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it made them seem irrelevant since they separated religious life from worldly life
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it made them more important since there were few literate lay worshipers
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it made them symbols of the Church’s progress
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Detailed explanation-1: -Monasteries were a place where travelers could stay during the Middle Ages as there were very few inns during that time. They also helped to feed the poor, take care of the sick, and provided education to boys in the local community.
Detailed explanation-2: -Through monasticism, prominent individuals in the history of Christianity encountered God in unique, spiritual ways that inspired others to pursue the same. Many forms of monasticism exist and are often based on people (i.e., Benedict of Nursia), geographical regions, and/or branches of Christianity.
Detailed explanation-3: -Monks and nuns performed many practical services in the Middle Ages, for they housed travelers, nursed the sick, and assisted the poor; abbots and abbesses dispensed advice to secular rulers. But monasticism also offered society a spiritual outlet and ideal with important consequences for medieval culture as a whole.
Detailed explanation-4: -What was the contribution to the monasteries in the field of education? Ans 5. 1. Some of these monasteries developed into famous secular universities, such as the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.