The Church in the Middle Ages thought that music should be performed only for the purpose to worship God and celebrate religious holidays. Music and instruments were banned everywhere else but in churches because of this belief.

"the rich monks ate fruits, meats, fowl, and drank wine. poor monks ate salt fish,bred, and water".

This answer is incorrect, since there were no "rich monks". All monks and nuns took vows of POVERTY, chastity and obedience, plus stability (the promise to remain in a monastery for the remainder of their lives). Monks lived by the very strict and complete regulations known as the Rule of St Benedict, which forbade the eating of the flesh of four-legged animals (so no pork, mutton, lamb, veal or beef).

Monasteries tried to be self-sufficient, baking their own bread, brewing their own ale, growing crops, vegetables, herbs, keeping bees for honey and breeding fish in complex fisheries. Birds could be eaten and these would include almost everything in Europe that can fly such as pigeons, swans, peacocks, blackbirds, partridges, geese and ducks. Salt fish was not eaten because there was a constant supply of fresh fish available.

Ale was drunk at every meal, including breakfast, and the Rule permitted wine at the rate of a "hemina" (about half a pint) per monk per day. It also warned against drunkenness.

Only the elderly and the sick, plus any young boys donated by their families to a monastery (they were called oblates) would be permitted to eat meat occasionally, in a special room called a misericord (meaning a "mercy"); the ordinary monks always ate together in a large refectory in total silence, while passages from the Bible were read by a monk appointed as weekly reader.

In this way the soul was fed along with the body.

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There weren't friars in Elizabethan England because of the dissolution of the monasteries, friars were either made homeless or fled abroad. In other countries where they still had monasteries they would have worn plain robes or hair shirts depending on what order they belonged to.

Saint Thomas Becket was chancellor of England and archbishop of Canterbury during the reign of Henry II and was martyred following a bitter battle with the monarchy over royal control of church law.

Even the accounts of people who were there at the time are not consistent, which is not surprising given the shocking circumstances.

One of the most reliable sources is the account written by Edward Grim shortly after the murder. He was injured trying to protect the Archbishop, so his testimony is first-hand and from his own knowledge.

He tells us that there were five attackers, one of whom was not directly present at the murder. They were the knights William de Tracy, Reginald fitz Urse, Hugh de Morville and Richard le Breton, together with a chaplain named Hugh de Horsea (who was himself a clerk or churchman). Becket initially had a small group of clerics and monks with him, but most of these appear to have fled before the fatal blows were struck.

The knight Hugh de Morville was apparently detailed to guard a small doorway, as the murderers were concerned that the good people of Canterbury would rush to the defence of the Archbishop (in fact an armed mob did arrive, but too late). This means that only the remaining three knights and Hugh the chaplain took part in the murder. Becket was accompanied by Edward Grim and William fitz Stephen, two secular clerks who both later wrote accounts of the murder. If any monks remained to witness the murder, their names are not recorded.

The chaplain, Hugh de Horsea, was afterwards called "Mauclerc" or Bad Cleric because of his involvement in the crime.

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In the Middle Ages, priests were not tried for crimes in secular courts unless they had committed such a crime as treason. For most felonies or misdemeanors, they were tried in ecclesiastical courts, which had rather different standards than secular courts. Punishments for priests found guilty of crimes usually included the guilty being defrocked, but could also include some sort of penance, such as service on the crusades or in a monastery.

There was some question as to whether a priest who was defrocked could subsequently be tried for the same crime in secular court. If he was, then he would get the same punishment as anyone else.

the clergy had a key role in attaining salvation for the common people because the clergy were the only part of the church that could give the 7 sacraments, such as baptism and the lords supper. These were ways that people could gain God's grace.

Leaving some of the available farm land fallow is part of a strategy known as crop rotation. Crop rotation has many benefits, including replenishing nitrogen in the soil, avoiding buildup of pathogens and pests, and to avoid the depletion of specific nutrients needed for a given crop.

Early in the middle ages Europeans generally used a two field system, meaning they farmed half of their land annually, and left the other half fallow. Beginning roughly around the year 1000 there was a gradual shift to a three field system. Under the three field system one third of the land is planted late in the year with a winter crop, like wheat or rye, which would lay dormant through the winter and be harvested the following summer. One third for land was planted in the spring with a crop like beans, peas, oats, or barley. One third was left fallow. The use of each field then rotated with each passing year.

The three field system had several advantages. First, it put about 16% more land into food production each year, meaning more food was available. It also helped spread the periods of heavy labor, such as harvest and planting, over the course of the year. By frequently planting legume crops such as beans and peas essential nitrogen was returned to the soil. Medieval people didn't know what nitrogen was, or the other scientific benefits of crop rotation, but they understood that it clearly helped increase crop yields.

Monks in monasteries during the middle ages were among the few, like the nobility, who could read and write. Because of this, most of the knowledge was kept restricted to that small sect of people. It wasn't until Johann Gutenberg invented the first printing press in the 1450's changed the situation so that knowledge was made available to everyone, and that was the main influence that spurred on the Age of Enlightenment.

A case can be made that monasteries almost single-handedly saved western civilization. After centuries of civil war and corruption the Roman Empire slipped away into history when Odoacer deposed the last Roman Emperor in 476AD. Barbarian hordes swept over the west and razed the last vestiges of this once mighty empire, squabbling over its territories and scattered riches. Europe entered what is commonly called "The Dark Ages".

Most major city centers lay in ruins, however, monasteries, because they were remote and hard to access, remained and within them were retained the culture and book knowledge lost everywhere else. Monks relentlessly copied and recopied Greek and Roman manuscripts as well as holy books, thus keeping the kernel of future civilization alive. The monasteries also served as the vanguard of future civilization, for when a monastery was founded, people naturally flocked around it to enjoy its spiritual and material benefits, and very often, this served as the nucleus of a budding town - not a few cities came out of such humble beginnings. Monasteries were often check points for travelers, forts in times of conflict, distribution centers in times of famine, hospitals in times of sickness, neutral grounds for conflicting parties to voice grievances and make pacts as well as being bastions of knowledge and skill.

Certain orders of monks were missionary in spirit and it was they who went out to conquer the barbarians with religion rather than the sword. Through a long organic process, monks actually were heavily responsible for making The Enlightenment possible by civilizing the barbarian tribes whose progeny, in forgotten centuries later, would ironically claim the Church was barbaric. If you ask a Catholic, they call the Dark Ages "The Golden Age of the Church" because the Church acted as the sole light in that dark time, and the monks played a huge role, both strong and resolute, in bringing Faith and civilization back from the brink of extinction in the west.

What is often forgotten is that monks preserved knowledge, were inventors of rudimentary machinery, many alcoholic beverages and types of cuisine, basic science, preserved language and knowledge, tutored pagan chieftains who would begin the royal lineage of kings and the lords of established realms, encouraged agriculture and land development, re-established Latin as a universal language and made connections with one another, thus laying the ground work for a new system of European unity. Reading and writing was not seen as it is today, but was as much a tool as a plane was to a carpenter and a plow to a farmer; the oral transmission of knowledge and traditions was the common way of doing things.

Centuries of struggling for basic survival culminated in a slow recovery that finally bore fruit: civilization gradually reemerged. With civilization came a new leisure class, one that would challenge kings as well as the Church, for though it did not have power or nobility, it had money. This leisure class wanted power and influence and its members desired to have access to and develop the knowledge and ideas the monks had been maintaining for centuries. The Church had established by this time public universities open to those whose discipline was for things of the mind, which usually meant nobles, the emerging middle class and religious. The middle class, with its drive to carve a spot for itself out of medieval Europe, introduced a new aggressive spirit, which manifested itself as humanism in intellectual circles. It rapidly expanded upon ideas and thinking and was quick to harness print in order to disseminate its views far and wide with great alacrity. This sudden influx developed into The Enlightenment. The Enlightenment came to despise the monks for their caution and seeming lack of enthusiasm to push into new ways of thinking and experimentation and it resented that they strove to temper it with their ponderous doctrine and moral considerations. It was ultimately a culture clash more than an issue of Faith, and ultimately, the monks were forgotten and sometimes killed in the revolutions that would later result. The Enlightenment was very much a bourgeois phenomenon, for it did not help the common man; farmers still farmed, tradesmen still plied their trade with very little of what we would call education.

For centuries, the monks coaxed civilization back from the ashes of the Roman Empire. Eventually, a new and safe society emerged that allowed for profitable trade and business, and the monks were discarded. These days, the monks are largely discredited, if they're even mentioned at all. The monks have stuck to their monasteries, as they had in centuries past and as they still do, bastions of the Faith and time capsules of knowledge should the west crumble again. To this day, however, the Enlightenment and its children have forgotten their roots in the ancient monasteries in Europe.

A Medieval Lord was simply known as LORD, YOUR LIEGE, or YOUR HONOR. The rank below a Lord was vassals, below vassals were serfs, which is the lowest position.

Also he could be known as Sire.

• Becket lived near Canterbury Cathedral.

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.

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"Friars" were members of the Franciscan Order, established by Francis of Assisi. They often called themselves the "Little Brothers" or "Fratres minores" in Latin, whence the English "friars".

During the middle ages church reformers felt like the church had become more of a business than a religious body. The idea of paying your way into heaven and the focus of material over spiritual things were some of the complaints.

Monks pretty much all took vows of poverty. The ones who lived in monasteries did not earn money, and did not need it. Those who did not live in monasteries begged, but usually for food or whatever else they might have needed.

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A person who lived in the Middle Ages is called medieval.

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