Benedictine Rules

Monasteries could be very useful to monks.  They gave people a place to connect with themselves and disconnect from humanity.  People could go and focus on things they couldn't focus on as other talked and distracted them.  Everyone in the monasteries also had very similar goals.  This made fulfilling your goal much easier as you weren't trying to compete with others doing other things.  The Rule gives insight into social and economic structure through some of the specific rules.  You have to help others and be respectful to other people.  You also cannot be greedy or destructive.  This could show that most people were equal while there still were some divisions in social class.  Even if there were upper and lower classes, they would not completely avoid each other.  Because of the rules, the people would help anyone and attempt to be an overall cleansed person/