How The Catholic Church Lead European Governance During The Middle Ages

How the Catholic Church lead European governance during the Middle Ages
Catholic, in its purest form meant wholly, general or universal. At least this is what it represented as a church. Catholicism came about when letters were discovered around the second century containing the name of the church. This gave proof to the existence of the church even as far back as in the earlier times. Western Europe was leading in terms of numbers of followers in the middle Ages. The Roman Catholic Church used Latin language in all its services, despite the fact that many people in Western Europe were illiterate and did not understand or speak Latin. The European people by then could only rely on pictures which were on walls and stained glasses to understand …show more content…
They were the key pillars to organizations and government. Having studied for many years the bishops were very fluent in Latin and that gave them some authority that even kings were mandated to consult Bishops and take orders from them in their daily affairs. The Church using its much respected leadership and expertise was involved in various other decisions making and had delegates in all special committees, where they levied taxes on peasants and implement the code of the church amongst many other functions. Thanks in part to this, Christendom community was formed. Christendom Community was based on the belief that the pope was the overall head of the church of God on earth. The Catholic Church saw the need to infiltrate the world using crusades which they used as a method to control many countries together with its people. Having the intelligence the church administration did not wait for complaints to be brought to them but rather sought after the suspects, in order to create fear, with the hope of regaining control and trust of the people. Countries that differed on the position of the Catholic Church in the society turned to be strongest in protecting religion as a way of integrating …show more content…
These occurrences later influenced powerful rulers in Europe, as well as the Kings of England, Germany and France. Crusading knights were wealthy men with plenty of land in Europe and yet willingly gave up everything to undertake this holy mission. The crusaders did so more as a penitential act of charity and love. The well organised and powerful crusades across the whole of Europe, eventually led to a permanent split between Eastern Orthodox Christians, who believed that the church was them and they were the church and that western Christianity who are the sharp critics of eastern orthodox. The church was sometimes known to sell the forgiveness that medieval people