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What if in the 5th century (as monasteries begun to spread in western Europe) the church (pope, important bishops et.) decides that living far away from the world is a bad idea and monks and nuns should go out in the world and do something less isolate?

Let's assume this leads to no monasteries like we know them, no centres of education and knowledge. How would that effect (western) Europe?

P.S. I may use the information you provide me with in my timeline (look in my sig) :)
My general religious ideas for the TL are a earlier east-west split (maybe on the lines Nestorian/Myaphysitian) and Arianism as dominant branch of Christianity in northern Europe.
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