The+Monks

Monks dedicated themselves to God in a life that was literally out of this world.

During dinner times monks were not allowed to speak so they used some simple signs and hand gestures as their language, these hand signs were majorly food-related.

Rich people paid money to the monks to pray for them.This is how the monks got money and ended up corrupted.

Monks can't eat red meat or talk during meal time, yet monks bypass the meal time silence by using hand signs.

Monks take themselves out of the world in order to conquer the world.(?)

Monks lived in monasteries.

William the conqueror built many monasteries to make more monks pray for him because he killed many soldiers during his wars.

Rich monks owned their own cities, and people who live in their cities will have to pay them taxes.

The monks of the abbey in West suffolk, owned entire land.

Being abbot of Bury st. Edmunds was literally a license to print money. (because there was a royal mint in the city.)

The abbey even owned the very horse droppings on the street (in the town of Bury st. Edmunds)and the monks took their cut of that.

The original idea of the monks was to stay isolated from the world.

After some time, a group of monks decided to come back to the original idea of being a monk, they built new monasteries and lived a simpler life.

Monks were not allowed to eat red meat.

Except for forbidding to eat the red meat, there were still many kinds of food that the Monks could enjoy eating.

Churches became so rich that everyone wanted to be monk.

popes became so powerful that they fought with the kings.

Rich people paid monks to pray for them.

When Henry got the power, the wealth and power of church were destroyed.

Each person killed they had to pray for them.


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The rich paid money to monks. So they had to pray for the rich.

Monks were allowed to eat meat when they were sick(they weren't supposed to eat four-legged creatures).

They also had their own simple sign language to communicate with.

They believed the simpler/purer the life, the stronger the prayer.

Some monks became so wealthy that they made economic and political influences. They also changed some of the laws to make their life easier and simpler.

The monks put on armours and went on wars.