Church

__Role of The Church. __ The Roman Catholic Church played a crucial role in the Middle Ages. The Pope was the person who really had all the power during that time. The church gave people hope and faith through the time also known as the Dark Ages.

The church would heavily tax and add pressure on tithing the richer people in Europe. If you weren't apart of the church you would be considered a witch. The church would make magnificent colossal cathedrals like the one shown above. The cost today to make these cathedrals worth billions and billions of dollars today. The church had lots of signifigance to the Middle Ages. The church used the Divine Right of Kings to their advantages to keep the people behaving.  All the peasnts and surfs had to look forward to was dying and going to Heaven. The importance of the church in European history is without it people would've been tyrading the streets and there wouldn't have been hope and faith. "Without the church Christianity and Catholosism would not be the same today."(Bard,22) The church was the glue that kept the Middle Ages together. The church was the one thing that in a way had more power than the king. There are five levels you have through if you studied theology in the Middle Ages. Lowest being a priest. Than a bishop, cardinal, arch cardinal. Then a special few get to be picked as the pope. These people were one of few who got to learn how to read and write. That way they had more literacy power over everyone else even the king. Bibliography: __Bard, Dr.Imre. The Late Middle Ages. Austin, TX: Raintree/Steck-Vaughn, 1992. Print__ Outside sources: [] Back to home!