what was the role of catholic chuches during middle ages in europe?

Answer 1

Why don't you take an hour or two to read this and inform yourself better that way?

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Answer 2

That's a pretty complicated and vast question. In a nutshell though, the church was the spiritual powerhouse of Europe during the Middle Ages. Most people went to the Catholic Church. The church also contributed to social norms too. If a person was excommunicated from the church, he was considered a non-person and ostracized from the community. Most of the universities in Europe at the time were started by monks and they continued to be the main type of student that the universities admitted. The church also at times dabbled in political affairs and came to loggerheads with the rulers of nations.

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Answer 3

The role of the catholic churches during the middle ages in europe was the role of the inquisitor, torturer, and executioner. Take a look at the Malleus Maleficarum, and the history behind it, and you may learn something the church doesn't want you to.

Answer 4

Gave people the belief that even though they worked 12 hours a day in the fields for barely enough food to live on, life was good.
Also kept learning alive in a time when not a whole lot of people could read.

Answer 5

They governed and dispensed justice under canonical law and mediated disputes between nations in the amalgam of Christendom.

Answer 6

The reading list below can act as a source for you. Most of the titles can be found in your local library. If they don't have them they can borrow them from another library.


Religion:
What-happened-to-Jesus-1st-1000-years
http://www.amazon.com/What-happened-to-Jesus-1st-1000-years/lm/S77VVY1QJ0DU/ref=cm_lm_byauthor_title_full/002-3352010-2594421