How did the medieval church give help to the people?

Answer 1

The medieval church provide a lot of help services during the middle ages.

For example, monasteries and convents provided places where people could seek refuge. If a woman was abused by her husband, she could get a place to live where she was safe, be she serf or queen.

The Church had its own court system in many countries, which were often a good deal more lenient than the secular courts. In England, a person could qualify for transfer to ecclesiastical court if he or she could read a certain psalm, which proved literacy, and one result was that criminals taught other criminals how to read that one psalm. In Spain, people could qualify for ecclesiastical court if they were heretics, so some people confessed to get the more lenient treatment. This was true even during the Spanish Inquisition, providing the person repented.

Churches and monasteries ran schools.

Monasteries ran hospitals.

Monastic groups ran inns to give shelter to pilgrims and other travelers. Other monastic groups protected people on the roads.

The Church provided families with upward mobility. If a family member went into the Church, it meant that others in the family could benefit in a number of practical ways.

The Church provided many people with a better living than they otherwise would have had.

The Church provided spiritual guidance, and there were other benefits.

Answer 2

Nuns made it more hygienic and provided constant nursing and meals.

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Yes, the Church helped initiate progress in science in general, by issuing the Condemnations of 1210 to 1277.

Though they sound like they might have been oppressive, the Condemnations of 1210 to 1277 actually freed scientists from a dogma that effectively prevented real research. This dogma did not originate from the Church, but from educators who taught that the pinnacle of understanding was Aristotle, and any deviation from his teaching was unacceptable - if you wanted to find out how many teeth a horse had, you looked for an answer in Aristotle's writings, rather than in a horses mouth.

The Church responded to the dogma of the University professors by condemning it as heresy. While it was still considered acceptable to teach Aristotle in most universities, it was not acceptable to teach that Aristotle was infallible. It became permissible to find information empirically, and if you wanted to know how many teeth a horse had, you could get the information from the horse's mouth.

There is a link below to an article on the Condemnations of 1210 to 1277.

Answer 3

it helped them pray more