sentences:  He therefore drew up constitutions, afterwards codified, which became the norm of the life at the Studium monastery, and gradually spread thence to the monasteries of the rest of the Eastern Roman Empire.At the same time the monastery was an active center of intellectual and artistic life and a model which exercised considerable influence on monastic observances in the East.Thus to this day the "Asketikon" of Basil and the Constitutions of Theodore, along with the canons of the Councils, constitute the chief part of Greek and Slavic monastic tradition.