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No institution had complete control over the lives of people of the Middle Ages.

I know there are a lot of people who would like to answer that the Catholic Church did, but a look at the history of the time shows that the Catholic Church was subject to interference from hostile kings and emperors, internal divisions, and even powerful heretical groups that occasionally controlled whole territories. At the beginning of the Middle Ages, most of Europe was pagan, and before the pagans were converted, the Catholic Church had already broken up into the Roman Catholics and the Eastern Orthodox.

This is not to say the Church had no power. It was very powerful. But it did not have anything even close to complete control.

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