Monks and Nuns- leaders of religious lives

Monks

Monks were religious men who devoted their entire lives to religion. Monks gave up everything they owned and depended on the charity of others. They lived in monestaries, which served as half church, half hospital. Some monks would decide to reenter society as doctors after their experience in the monestaries. The monks daily life revolved around prayer, but monks also taught reading and writing, sewed clothes, and prepared medicine for the less fortunate.

Nuns

Nuns were the female form of a monk. They had same beliefs, customs, and traditions. Nuns and Monks lived separately, Nuns in covents or abbeys, while Monks lived in the monestaries. During the middle ages, Nuns wore a habit, a wimple, a veil, shoes and stockings. the color of the clothes depended in the importance of the covent or abbey. For instance, if a queen had once been a nun in a particular abbey or covent, the whole abbey would wear white from then on.