WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Monasteries were also important centres of learning which educated the young, and, perhaps most significantly for today’s historians, laboriously produced books and preserved ancient texts which have greatly enhanced our knowledge of not only the medieval world but also classical antiquity.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -monasteries preserved knowledge and books during the Early Middle Ages.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Benedictine monasteries became the chief centres of learning and the source of the many literate scribes needed for the civil administration. The monastic schools, however, are no more significant in the history of education than the schools founded by bishops, usually in connection with a cathedral.

Detailed explanation-5: -It was in the sixth century B.C. that there lived in India the founders of two great religions of mankind. They were Mahavira Jina and Gautama Buddha, the founders of Jainism and Buddhism.