What Was the Role of Monastic Orders, Old and New

question 15

Essay

What was the role of monastic orders, old and new, in shaping the politics and culture of medieval Europe?

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Definitions:

Ebbinghaus

Hermann Ebbinghaus, a German psychologist known for his pioneering work on memory and the forgetting curve.

Nonsense Syllables

Meaningless sets of two or three letters that are used in memory and learning experiments to study the learning process.

Memory

The mental ability that allows for the keeping, maintaining, and recovering of information throughout time.

Effortful Processing

Encoding that requires attention and conscious effort.