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The Medieval Church played a far greater role in Medieval England
than the Church does today. In Medieval England, the Church
dominated everybody's life. All Medieval people be they village
peasants or towns people believed that God, Heaven and Hell all
existed.
From the very earliest of ages, the people were taught that the only
way they could get to Heaven was if the Roman Catholic Church let
them. Everybody would have been terrified of Hell and the people
would have been told of the sheer horrors awaiting for them in Hell
in the weekly services they attended.
The control the Church had over the people was total. Peasants
worked for free on Church land. This proved difficult for peasants
as the time they spent working on Church land, could have been
better spent working on their own plots of land producing food for
their families.
They paid 10% of what they earned in a year to the Church (tithes).
Tithes could be paid in either money or in goods produced by the
peasant farmers. As peasants had little money, they almost always
had to pay in seeds, animals etc.
No wonder the churches were so wealthy ?
Religion Catholic
Codex Sinaiticus
Corrupt
Books of the bible The Ten
Commandments The Church |
