How did Europe change after feudalism?

Answer 1

After feudalism, people got less religious. Since the people of the middle ages believed that cleanliness was next to godliness and bathed frequently, even if it meant dip in a river in winter, and since the people of the Renaissance had discovered perfume, this meant that people were stinky in the Renaissance in a way they never were in the middle ages.

One reaction to the invention of printing and widespread use of books was that the governments and the Church entered into a period of inquisitions after the Middle Ages. Another was that books circulated that were intended to save peoples souls from whatever horrors there were in the world, and the relatively mild phobias of the middle ages, which resulted in the deaths of a couple of European people each year, turned into full scale witch hunts with thousands of victims. The Renaissance, for all its appeal to reason and science, substituted superstition for religion.

Protestantism, and the opposition to it, produced a new series of wars intended to establish religious order, and in the chaos, people of both persuasions fought on both sides.

The use of hops for beer was introduced to England, producing riots. Protestants liked hops because they are a soporific and made people want to sleep instead of having sex. Also, they made it possible for brewers to evade the taxes on gruit, which was used in beer before hops, and this was important because the taxes were paid to the Roman Catholic Church. But the people in England just hated the flavor. They got used to it.

There are other changes, and perhaps someone would like to add some.