How did monks and nuns improve life during the Middle Ages?

The Monks and Nuns educated people, wrote books and painted beautiful pictures. In that way they kept these things from being forgotten.

cared for the sick and poor

Generally speaking, monks and nuns lived in monasteries or convents, and did very much the same sorts of things other people did in terms of raising food, cleaning, cooking, and so on. They did not...

Monks lived in monasteries and separated themselves from the rest of society. Unless their duties required it most monks had very limited contact with people outside of their monastery, and could not...

Life in the middle ages was hard. Many of the peasants or serfs lived in huts. The lords and Ladies usually owned an estate, were many serfs would work. They would pay part of all they grew to the...