INDIAN HISTORY

HISTORY

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Monks and nuns served the community by
A
Providing social services.
B
Remaining secluded and rarely seeing outsiders.
C
Pressuring feudal lords to provide social services.
D
Performing little manual labor.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Monks and nuns spent most of their time praying meditating, and doing tasks like preparing medicine, or sewing, teaching, writing, and reading. Monks and nuns were very busy but also organized. The timetable was a certain order of monks’ prayers. The first one was the Opus Dei.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Monks Vows They were to give up worldly goods and devote their lives to God and discipline. They also took vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.

Detailed explanation-4: -Answer: The nuns and monks received their education from various monasteries or viharas which were educational centres of art and learning.

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