because jesus was alive
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religion. People started to question the authority of the church.
It was great for the clergy. It wasn't so great for the faithful.
religion. People started to question the authority of the church.
religion. People started to question the authority of the church.
As Europe gradually emerged from the destruction of the Roman Empire, the church became one of the mainstays of civilization. During the pontificate of Gregory I the Great (590-604), the medieval papacy began to assert its authority. Gregory's achievement was to go beyond the claim of papal primacy in the church by beginning to establish the temporal power of the papacy.
The st.Andrews river protected the church during the great fire of 1901, and the church is famous for surviving the great fire.
It was a a standard food eaten by all people living in Great Britain from neolithic times on into the Middle Ages
Protestant churches had barely begun during the Middle Ages. The most powerful Church was the orthodox Christian Church. At the Great Schism, it separated into the Roman Catholic Church, which was arguably the larger, and the Eastern Orthodox Church. From a time before the fall of the Roman Empire, there were always also other, smaller church organizations, such as the Coptic Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches.
The greatest power the Church had was based on the fact that people believed in its teachings.The greatest political power the Church had was based on the fact that it was able to nullify vows, and this could be done when a king was excommunicated, leaving him with reduced, possibly drastically reduced, numbers of supports, and freeing his enemies, both inside and outside his kingdom, to work openly against him.
Pope and church to some extent, but in the late middle ages the kings often fought the Pope and ignored him.
During the middle ages the Great Famine lingered for years, drawing out the suffering of the populace.