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HOW MUCH INFLUENCE DID THE CHURCH HAVE ON THE PEOPLE OF THE MIDDLE AGES?
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HOW MUCH INFLUENCE DID THE CHURCH HAVE ON THE PEOPLE OF THE MIDDLE AGES? * The advantages that priests had - because people could not read * Persecution - Non-Christians persecuted; Christians not persecuted * Black Death - Killed many Christians * Tiths Taxes. As we all know Christianity is an evolution of the Jewish Religion of who had been touched by the story teller Jesus. A few hundred years late and in the ... world Christianity was developing slowly. Eventually by the 3rd Century it was spreading quickly. In 395 it became the "official" religion of Romans under Emperor Theodas. Bishops were put in charge of communities which evolved into Dioceses (Counties) of which Bishops were still in charge. But community had become like towns within dioceses and had its own Parish Priests or Vicars. A Community's church size, structure and architecture depended on what the priest could afford. The Pope was the most powerful...
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