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Middle Ages: Monachism "As the [Benedictine] Order met a deep requirement, beyond the conscience of the founder, and against his intention, the monastery was incorporated in the world and performed a great economic, social, cultural action, so that the Benedictines became the teachers and the farmers of Europe and the monastery became the bank, the laboratory, the rural company, the school, the library on a wide area" (Giorgio Falco).

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Ludmila GRYGIEL, San Benedetto, il primo Europeo, Cantagalli, Siena 2004.

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Raymond OURSEL - Léo MOULIN - Réginald GREGOIRE, La civiltà dei monasteri, Jaca Book, Milano 1988.