4. Monasteries that kept to the Rule could be useful to society in the fact that many aided public affairs by acting as orphanages, schools, etc. Additionally, all how participated in the Rule (which was many people, because they were all scaredy cats) would be kept in line and not threatening the public through wrongdoing and crime, as it would be against their religion. Seeing as so many people followed this lifestyle, it probably helped Europe out with their crime rate. Their policy of helping the poor obviously was of great assistance to society, as many people were being aided by these institutions.
5. Of the social structure of the time period, one may guess from the copious amounts of rules that surrounded a monastic lifestyle that social structure was probably very set and carried many requirements of the inhabitants - in this respect I mean that one may wonder that perhaps for certain levels of society, many things were expected of the people who composed them. In terms of the economic structure, one may guess that it was struggling but still pulling up from the depths of the fall of the Roman Empire. This may be drawn from the fact that monks were to give to the poor. If so many people were monks at the time, Europe must have been ridden with the poor. From this, we may guess that perhaps the economy at the time was still pulling itself back up.
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