What Role Did Monasteries Play In Medieval Europe

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After the collapse of the Roman empire, Europe was in cultural and intellectual stagnation. The Swerve is based on medieval Europe and Renaissance beginning with something that Stephen Greenblatt picked up a poem called was written by Lucretius in a college book sale. He was fascinated by the ideas that how to handle death. His mother was anxious about death so he was influenced by his mother because his mother used it as a manipulative device. He was curious about that book was written long ago time and he thought that this book included ideas for considering modern. I will mention that some aspects such as what roles did monasteries play in the Middle Ages and the role of monastries in medieval Europe in the preservation and production of manuscripts through the book. Monasteries were first and primary religious institutions so people joined to live a religious life and for the forgiveness of sins and for rectification. Furthermore, monasteries were significant for education. After the Roman Empire collapsed particularly as the Western Roman Empire collapsed the monks were the only people to study and the resources to store and copy books. many monasteries became famous in terms of their libraries and the best libraries in Western Europe tended …show more content…

They had their own libraries to keep record to manuscripsts. Therefore, they saved many of greater treaures such as On the Nature of Things. According to Greenblatt, Poggio Bracciolini was a founder of this book which was hidden. To find it, Poggio went to Germany monastries but monastries had strict rules about literacy and demanding books. On the other hand, Poggio was the appropriate person to access to monastic libraries. Consequently, if I were Poggio, i would achieve these libraries to found these treausers no matter what happened during these

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