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∙ 12y agoMonasteries were not designed to provide any services to the community; indeed they represented life away from the community, untainted by the sin and temptation found in the outside world. Monasteries were places of isolation, seclusion and devoted entirely to the worship of God.
Despite this, interaction with the community was inevitable and most monastic houses provided alms (charitable donations) to the poor and needy, usually in the form of food and unwanted old clothes. Monasteries also included hospitals (guest-houses) for overnight visitors who could obtain a meal, a bed and a place in a chapel for prayer, without having to pay.
Monasteries also included an infirmary for the sick and elderly monks; the facilities might also be extended to anyone who needed medical help. Minor surgery, setting broken bones, dealing with fevers, skin ailments and treating dog bites were all within the scope of a brother infirmarer.
Monastic libraries were not normally available to anyone outside the precinct, but such libraries preserved valuable knowledge and texts for future generations.
Monasteries also employed lay servants (in the case of the Benedictines) or lay monks (in the case of the Cistercians); there were also opportunities for some people to obtain an education.
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They lived in monasteries
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Constantine banned education during the Middle ages. Monasteries were the single place where knowledge was taught.
The preservation of classical texts during the Middle Ages was most often accomplished in monasteries.
The Church of England did not exist during the Middle Ages. It was formed after the Dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII at the beginning of the modern era.
Monasteries during the Middle Ages (Dark Ages) provided repositories for the documents and artifacts from Roman and Greek civilization, as well as those of a religious nature. Many texts were copied by hand, or preserved as scrolls, or bound into volumes. In feudal times, monks and other orders provided educational services (notably to the children of rulers), and cared for travelers and the sick.
Not all monks taught in schools during the Middle Ages as not all monasteries had schools. However, many communities did operate what would be called schools today.
a useful job that the monasteries did were they were a school and a hospital
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They lived in monasteries
The Church provided education, medical attention, and security in its monasteries. It also advocated for the poor and weak, for the homeless, for children, and for women.
Most orphanages of the Middle Ages were run by monasteries. It seems some cathedrals had orphanages as well, because some were put in the care of monasteries and others in the care of bishops.
In monasteries, churches, and sometimes as tutors for the nobles.
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Roger Liddesdale Palmer has written: 'English monasteries in the middle ages' -- subject(s): Monasteries, Monasticism and religious orders
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