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¶ … Catholic Church wielded much power during the Middle Ages, and was a big part of the people living at the time. The popularity of the Catholic Church was partly due to the widespread illiteracy among the population of Europe. Literacy was common among the nobility and the clergy, but such was not the case with the working class public, who often did not have access to education. Since the majority of the population was illiterate, churchgoers acquired their knowledge of the bible from sermons. In order to further instill Biblical stories into the minds of the general population, the very structure of the church was used as an instrument to further advance the biblical knowledge of the general public. Thus, the stained glass windows of many Catholic churches served the purpose of reminding churchgoers of Biblical narratives through visual means, and the Chartres Cathedral was no exception.
Upon entering the Chartres Cathedral, a peasant living in the thirteenth century would easily notice the prominent glass stained windows. On the west side of the cathedral, the peasant would see the passion window that shows, among others the Passion of the Christ. The story of the Passion of the Christ was meant to remind the average churchgoer about the sacrifice of Christ to save the mankind and his miraculous resurrection. The significance of this specific...
They are reminded that their own existence is made possible due to the benevolence and omnipotence of God and Christ, and witnessing this message every time they enter the Chartres Cathedral motivates them to follow the tenets of Christianity.
The necessity for establishing a connection with God was not only limited to the illiterate peasants in Medieval Europe. In fact, whereas the peasants had to rely on the Church's guidance to establish a connection with God because of lack of literacy, educated individuals sought to find and establish personal connections with God in the course of their studies of divinity.
A student living in the thirteenth century would find himself plagued with the need to find a way to be closer to God and guarantee his salvation. The studies of a medieval student would likely include an examination of the Bible leading to some kind of universal truth and bring one closer to God. The student's course of study started with an examination of dialectic, such as Socratic debate methods because only by establishing the validity of theory with absolutely certainty could a student of religion be sure in his own…
Catholic church and public policy have remarked that the members of American clergy in general, without even excepting those who do not admit religious liberty, are all in favour of civil freedom; but they do not support any particular political system. They keep aloof from parties, and from public affairs. In the United States religion exercises but little influence upon laws, and upon the details of public opinion; but it
Catholic Church in Spain and the United States The Catholic Church has been a very significant religious and political institution in the Europe. Its origins can be traced to a thousand years when Christianity was itself in its infancy. It was a symbol of colossal authority and was much regarded as an institution that was as similar to the installed governmental mechanism of any nation state. Its power and influence spread
Medieval Women To state the obvious, the lives of medieval women were very different than those of women today. The medieval times are often referred to as the Middle Ages. During the Middle Ages, the people of Europe often lived in smaller rural communities. The families would make their living off of the land. The women of these families were typically peasants and they would shoulder many of the domestic responsibilities
Here, just as the dominance of the Roman penal code would impose an acceptance of the death penalty upon adherents, so too would the Church begin to view the current patterns of social and civic order as demanding adaptation. Therefore, by the early 1990s and under Pope John Paul II, the Catholic Church officially began to pursue a more aggressive stance on stamping out the use of capital punishment
This inherited infallibility might have been enough to maintain some form of power and integrity throughout the bulk of the fourteenth century, but in the last quarter of the 1300s a new problem arose out of the Babylonian Captivity that could not be so simply solved. After being convinced to move the papal seat back to Rome and thus reestablishing the independence of the Church, Pope Gregory XI promptly dies,
institutions wielded as much influence over the people of their age as the medieval Roman Catholic Church. This influence derived primarily from the church's enormous wealth, due to the requirement of its members to tithe ten percent of all monies earned to the church to avoid eternal damnation. The church used this wealth to buy up large tracts of land, an estimated 30% of Europe by the 14th century,