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Maybe another way of thinking this is to ask why modern people don't go to church. Everyone else did.
Today we are born in hospitals, and we die in hospitals. Funerals are built around dead bodies that have been carefully altered to look lifelike. Infant mortality is very low, and people live a long time. A person can live to be ninety and never see anyone die.
In the middle ages, people were born at home, and they died at home. The Infant Mortality Rate was about 35%, and most people had siblings who had not survived. Everyone saw people die. People knew death, they understood death, and death was part of everyday life, an everpresent fact.
When people understand death, most either become religious or cynical. In those days, at least, it was considered better to be religious.
And of course, the Church wanted you to go. The Church offered inducements to go, and there was no advantage for most people not to go.
I would go on to say that many people regarded church as a way to have some relief from life, and maybe even have some fun. The Canterbury Tales depicts a lively, fun loving group of people who are having a vacation based on a religious excuse as much as being pilgrims for entirely devout reasons.
What else can I help you with?
Why weren't men nuns in the medieval Europe days?
Females were nuns, males were monks.
Why weren't men nuns in medieval Europe days?
Females were nuns, males were monks.
Where did monks and nuns live in the medieval times?
Monks lived in an abbey or priory (headed by an Abbot or Prior); nuns lived in a nunnery or convent headed by an Abbess or Prioress.
Who does the monks and nuns job naw?
Monks and nuns do the monks' and nuns' jobs now.
Did monks and nuns educate people?
Yes
What do you call monks?
You just call Monks Monks and Nuns Nuns. They don't have any other names.
How did the medieval times nuns have a different life than monks?
Nuns were more likely to be cloistered in their monasteries with very little contact with the outside world. As a group, monks had more freedom to live a secular kind of life if they wished.
Where Do Buddhist Monks And Nuns Live?
in a temple obviously people!
Why can't Jews become nuns?
Because you have to be either a Catholic or an Orthodox Christian to become a nun. The Jewish religion doesn't have religious orders (such as nuns and monks).
Who had more freedom monks or nuns?
nuns
Why did monks and nuns farm in the medieval times?
Buddhist monks and nuns did not have income earning jobs as they could not handle money or earn income. Their role in society was to help teach lay practioners but their ultimate job is to attain enlightenment.
What is the large church with a group of building occupied by a community of monks or nuns?
Monks - monastery. Nuns - convent.
