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A wise choice, Margaret. Encouraging monks from European and English monasteries will introduce new religious orders to Scotland. Monks are scholars and will raise the literacy of the nation. Benedictine monks have a strict lifestyle of prayer and study.

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You build a Benedictine priory at Dunfermline and encourage an order of monks to come and practice there.

This is the first of many religious houses founded under the 'Canmore' dynasty. Your son, David I, will build upon the religious house at Dunfermline. He will introduce a new Anglo-Norman style of architecture, as seen in Jedburgh Abbey and English contemporary Durham cathedral.

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Example of the influence of European architecture in Scotland's religious houses. Jedburgh Abbey, mid-13th century.
Queen Margaret - The path of a saint