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In the early thirteenth century the friars of Francis and Dominic abandoned rural seclusion for the streets, squares and universities of Europe's booming towns.
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Read more →Under Charlemagne, monasteries became the intellectual power stations of Europe — copying texts, training scholars and inventing the script you are reading right now.
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