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it would have a cross and they were normally quite tall.

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It very much depends on which part of the very long medieval period you mean - architecture changed enormously (like every other aspect of medieval life).

Churches built by the Normans in the 11th and 12th centuries were fairly simple buildings with very narrow, round-topped windows without glass (something like arrow slits); only the main west door would be large and elaborate, again with a round top. No porches or spires were built, but most churches had a low tower for the bells. The outside would have stone corbels along the tops of the walls, carved into grotesque faces or strange animals. Inside, walls were plastered and painted; even ceilings might be covered in painted detail.

In the 13th and early 14th centuries these same churches were usually enlarged due to expanding populations: aisles were added each side of the main body of the church and often the east end was enlarged. The cost of glass was becoming more affordable so the old Norman windows were enlarged and changed in style, with pointed "Gothic" arches replacing the round ones. A church originally built in the 12th century would now be modernised so it looked nothing like its previous form.

In the late 14th and 15th centuries styles changed again, with more elaborate glazed windows often being added - some churches ended up with three or four different styles of door and window arches. Porches were sometimes added, destroying the early Norman decoration around the main door.

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Church, like everything else in the middle ages, varied enormously. The middle ages took place over a continent and over a thousand years, so things were all varied.

In some places, church took a long time, and in other it took very little. There were kings who valued their time for other things and wanted short services, read fast, with short sermons. A fancy mass could have taken hours. Services at liturgical hours were very short, and, might have taken no more than ten minutes. I have attended Compline, and it was kneel for psalms, stand for a hymn, sit for a lesson, stand for a canticle, kneel for benediction, and get out, almost that fast and really sort of refreshing at the end of the working day. Some services were austere, some were rich. Some had music, and some did not. Some were in Latin, some in Greek. Some were in Coptic or Welsh, truth be told.

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The Medieval Church played a far greater role in Medieval England than the Church does today. In Medieval England, the Church dominated everybody's life. All Medieval people - be they village peasants or towns people - believed that God, Heaven and Hell all existed. From the very earliest of ages, the people were taught that the only way they could get to Heaven was if the Roman Catholic Church let them. Everybody would have been terrified of Hell and the people would have been told of the sheer horrors awaiting for them in Hell in the weekly services they attended.

The control the Church had over the people was total. Peasants worked for free on Church land. This proved difficult for peasants as the time they spent working on Church land, could have been better spent working on their own plots of land producing food for their families.

They paid 10% of what they earned in a year to the Church (this tax was called tithes). Tithes could be paid in either money or in goods produced by the peasant farmers. As peasants had little money, they almost always had to pay in seeds, harvested grain, animals etc. This usually caused a peasant a lot of hardship as seeds, for example, would be needed to feed a family the following year. What the Church got in tithes was kept in huge tithe barns; a lot of the stored grain would have been eaten by rats or poisoned by their urine. A failure to pay tithes, so the peasants were told by the Church, would lead to their souls going to Hell after they had died.

This is one reason why the Church was so wealthy. One of the reasons Henry VIII wanted to reform the Church was get hold of the Catholic Church's money. People were too scared not to pay tithes despite the difficulties it meant for them.

You also had to pay for baptisms (if you were not baptised you could not go to Heaven when you died), marriages (there were no couples living together in Medieval times as the Church taught that this equaled sin) and burials - you had to be buried on holy land if your soul was to get to heaven. Whichever way you looked, the Church received money.

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The Catholic church ran the society in the middle ages. They taught that man was born in sin and to get to heaven man had to go through the church. It isn't until the Renaissance that man realizes he doesn't need the church to talk directly with God. The Catholic church set the rules for the serf and the kings. It dicated what was important and what was not.

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Religion in the medieval era was very superstitious with a lot of customs and traditions that they had to follow. Because to them much of reigion was based on old superstitions, they strongly relyed on things like string and needle made as a pendulum and swung in front of their stomachs to see whether a pregnant lady was having twins or a girl or boy etc to see things in the future that we know as 'rediculous.' Another example is putting two kernals in front of the fire to see if they popped and landed closer together or further away to see if a relationship would succeed or not. Also breaking a dish on your wedding day was a big no no and meant that you would have bad luck in the start of your marriage. All of these customs and superstitions were used a lot by the religious people of that era.

Religion in the medieval era was also very strict with harsh punishments for things like a medicine book where a trial of witchery takes place because they believed that woman who could read or practiced medicine was a witch since they had the ability to heal people and because of the superstitions meaning the 'gods' and 'divination' was what healed people, you must be a witch to be able to heal people.

In the medieveal era the most popular religion was Catholicism and they believed that they should have the city 'Constantinople' which is now called 'Istanbul' which was where the 'crusades' took place because some catholic believed God told him to take back the city and therefore if anyone was a witch etc and hadn't been killed, if they were to go on the crusades they would be forgiven by the pope and they would be honoured for taking part. Read more about the crusades in the book: 'There will be wolves'.

So altogether we can see how most of the religion in the medieval era was designed by the human mind and therefore the ideas of the religion were swayed and very superstitious!

Anyway, i hope this helped! :-)

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they were harsh on the people.

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