WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The most important effects of monasticism on medieval Europe were religious, cultural, and educational.

Detailed explanation-2: -A Medieval Monastery was an enclosed and sometimes remote community of monks led by an abbot who shunned worldly goods to live a simple life of prayer and devotion. Christian monasteries first developed in the 4th century in Egypt and Syria and by the 5th century the idea had spread to Western Europe.

Detailed explanation-3: -What gave the church political and economic power? Monasteries held large tracts of land. What gave the church spiritual authority and how did that lead to political power? The church administered the sacraments and could deny them as a punishment, it had absolute power in religious matters.

Detailed explanation-4: -A monastery is a sacred building and a home to men called monks. Monks spend their time and their lives worshipping God. There are monks still living in monasteries across the world today. During the Middle Ages there were monasteries throughout the land.