Members of the nobility who would insure the efficient use of church lands and wealth would henceforth manage monasteries and nunneries. |
In enclosed places like monasteries, nunneries and prisons, the infection of one person usually meant the infection of all. |
By 1275 there were ten surviving Anglo-Saxon nunneries in England and Wales, together with 118 founded after the conquest. |
In independent Tibet, monasteries and nunneries, numbering over 6,000, served as schools and universities, fulfilling Tibet's educational needs. |
These monks and nuns live in their monasteries or nunneries all the rest of their lives, with no contact with the outside world. |
Next came the Benedictines, or black monks, with some 130 houses and over 60 nunneries. |