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| The church in this era sponsored public hospitals, orphanages, hospices, and hostels (inns).{{sfn|Blainey|2011|pp=214–215}}{{sfn|Butler|1919|loc=intro.}} The steadily increasing number of monasteries and convents supplied food during famine and distributed food to the poor.{{sfn|Matthews|Platt|1992|p=198}} Monasteries actively preserved ancient texts, classical craft and artistic skills, while maintaining an intellectual and spiritual culture. They supported [[literacy]] within their schools, [[Scriptorium|scriptoria]] and libraries.{{sfn|Woods|Canizares|2012|p=5}}{{sfn|LeGoff|2000|p=120}} They were models of productivity and economic resourcefulness, teaching their local communities animal husbandry, cheese making, wine making, and various other skills.{{sfn|Dunn|2016|p=60}} | The church in this era sponsored public hospitals, orphanages, hospices, and hostels (inns).{{sfn|Blainey|2011|pp=214–215}}{{sfn|Butler|1919|loc=intro.}} The steadily increasing number of monasteries and convents supplied food during famine and distributed food to the poor.{{sfn|Matthews|Platt|1992|p=198}} Monasteries actively preserved ancient texts, classical craft and artistic skills, while maintaining an intellectual and spiritual culture. They supported [[literacy]] within their schools, [[Scriptorium|scriptoria]] and libraries.{{sfn|Woods|Canizares|2012|p=5}}{{sfn|LeGoff|2000|p=120}} They were models of productivity and economic resourcefulness, teaching their local communities animal husbandry, cheese making, wine making, and various other skills.{{sfn|Dunn|2016|p=60}} |
| Medical practice was highly important, and medieval monasteries are best known for their contributions to medical tradition. They made advances in sciences such as astronomy. St. Benedict's Rule (480–543) impacted politics and law.{{sfn|Butler|1919|loc=intro.}}{{sfn|Koenig|King|Carson|2012|pp=22–24}} The formation of these organized bodies of believers gradually carved out a series of social spaces with some amount of independence, distinct from political and familial authority, thereby revolutionizing social history.{{sfn|Haight|2004|p=273}} | Medical practice was highly important, and medieval monasteries are best known for their contributions to medical tradition. They made advances in sciences such as astronomy. St. Benedict's Rule (480–543) impacted politics and law.{{sfn|Butler|1919|loc=intro.}}{{sfn|Koenig|King|Carson|2012|pp=22–24}} The formation of these organized bodies of believers gradually carved out a series of social spaces distinctly separate from political and familial authority, thereby revolutionizing social history.{{sfn|Haight|2004|p=273}} |
| ====Christendom==== | ====Christendom==== |
Okumaya devam et...