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Guests would usually be fed and offered a place to sleep. Monasteries, however, often doubled as inns, in which the patrons would pay to sleep there. I'm certain there was a fair share of charity, but a good deal of monasteries were like our modern-day motels. There was no particular model for how guests at these monasteries were treated. That probably depended a lot on the region and the particular order of monks.
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Where did the monks go when the monasteries were closed down?
All English monasteries were forced to close in the period 1538 - 1542 by king Henry VIII, who confiscated anything of value and destroyed everything else. The numbers of monks and nuns had already been in decline for some time, so relatively few people were thrown out; they had the choice of finding other employment or (if they were elderly) taking a pension from the king. Many monasteries were simply "slighted" - meaning that the roof was destroyed, walls torn down and the stone sold for building material elsewhere. Other monasteries (such as St Augustine's, Canterbury) were converted into royal residences or stopover places for royal guests on their way to London, as a kind of guest-house for important visitors. The king donated some monastery sites to his favourite courtiers, who converted them into fashionable homes. Michelham Priory in Sussex is one of these - all you will see there today is the old medieval gatehouse of the monastery complex, together with a stately home which has completely destroyed all trace of the monastery itself.
Did Henry VIII sell all of the monasteries?
yes he sold everything to do with them
What was the life of a nun like in the 1600s?
Well, it was like nothing in England, where monastic houses had been suppressed yb King Henry VIII after his split with Rome. "The Dissolution of the Monasteries, sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries, denotes the administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries, priories, convents and friaries in England, Wales and Ireland; appropriated their income, disposed of their assets and provided for their former members." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Monasteries
Would a tobacco pipe be shared between male and female guests in the 14th century?
It is possible that a tobacco pipe was shared between male and female guests in the 14th Century. It is more likely, however, that females had chewing tobacco instead of a pipe.
What emperor of the holy Roman Empire decreed that all monasteries should open schools to everyone and encouraged monastic libraries to preserve and copy ancient manuscripts.?
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