Because the catholic Church stood for justice and liberty and fairness for the working man,

The monastries in particular worked hard to feed the poor and give shelter when needed.

The first 'Masonic' meetings were formed by Catholics for the workers until the movement was hijacked by people for their own greed and advancement.

There were different kinds of marketplaces in the Middle Ages. One kind of market was a fair, which was a temporary market set up at a village, important crossroads, or such a place.

The other was a permanent market set up in a town, and the market was, in fact, the distinctive feature of a town. A permanent market require a royal charter, in many places, and the markets were regulated so they would not compete with each other. This was the reason why there were so few towns in England after the Norman conquest; the royal charters had not been given out.

Markets had vendors of all sorts, including everything from serfs selling food to merchants selling imported goods. The town markets had permanent shops along with stalls for itinerant craftsmen and tradesmen. The fairs, of course, had no permanent shops. One thing nearly all permanent markets had was people who sold prepared food, because most town and city folk could not afford to have their own cooking facilities, and so had to buy cooked food.

In the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church was seen as being a large, extended "family", existing not only on earth (church militant) but in heaven as well (church triumphant). The saints in Heaven cared about those on earth, and those on earth addressed prayers to them in Heaven. Saints were not prayed to as "gods" or in place of God, but as men and women, who, by the example of their lives, were especially close to God. They were called upon that God might work miracles through them. Relics of saints were venerated, for they were tangible links to them, and as it was believed that holiness could dwell in all aspects of God's creation. Catholics, some

Priests in the middle ages were primarily members of monastic orders. Their duties were primarily prayer and singing the Divine Office. They also had assigned duties such as cleaning, tending the gardens, etc. They also had some time for recreation which varied widely by religious order.

There was only the Catholic church and they ruled the government and society.

A tax charged by the Church and the middle age and is still practiced together is called tithe. This is 10 percent of the income of the faithful that is used in the running of the church programs. I

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.

Catholicism (Catholics)

At this time, Lutheranism, Methodism, or any other Protestant religions had not broken away from Catholicism yet, so Catholicism was the only official Christian religion, or the only official religion to believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God ans that he died for our sins and rose again.

Those people were called Reformers. The Reformers most famous today are Martin Luther and John Calvin. Luther alone posted 95 objections against Roman Catholic church practices and Calvin wrote several books on the subject, so you don't want me to go into great detail here.

Their main objection was that Christian belief should be based directly on what it says in The Bible, and not on what the Pope, bishops and priests gave you as their interpretation of the Bible (the art of printing just having been invented, most people never had seen a bible up close, let alone read it themselves). They objected also against many rules and teachings of the Roman Catholic church that had no basis at all in the Bible itself, like the existence and worshipping of the Saints and the Holy Virgin, the power of bishops and priests over the faithful and - especially in the case of Luther - celibacy of priests.

Thomas Becket was killed by four knights who used their swords to kill him.

A stable boy did all the tasks no one else wanted to do, such as mucking out stalls, tossing hay and straw down into the stalls, carrying water to the horses, etc. A lucky stable boy might eventually work his way up to a stable hand, at which point he could handwalk horses, groom them and help maintain the tack.

While jousting was a very popular form of entertainment it became less popular in favor of other sports that were found to be more entertaining.

The Roman Catholic Church became increasingly involved in secular (nonreligious) society during the Middle Ages (A.D. c. 450-c. 1500). It played a significant role in medieval European life through the activities of the clergy (church officials). Missionaries converted many of the Germanic tribes, and the church was influential in civilizing the so-called barbarians (non-Christians). Churches throughout Europe housed travelers and served as hospitals for the sick, while monasteries and cathedrals became centers of learning.

The fuedal system.

Life in a monastery was quite limited in that they had to make a vow to lead a monastic life for the est of their lives. Most of the activities included prayers, going for mass, farming and ensuring that the monastery was running all through.

In the middle ages, women rebelled by not living up to the standards of society. Women were known to be housewives, however, some women rebelled by going out and looking for an out of the house job.

1=most important

1)Pope

2)Cardinal

3)Archbishop

4)Bishop

5)Priest

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the desire to eliminate wealth and corruption from the church

it gave them hope that there was something to live for. Also they felt that they needed to be connected with god. Another reason is that the church said that if you didn't join you would go straight to hell.

The Catholic Church has always served people in the same way: by bringing God to the people in the sacraments, and by bringing the people to God. They baptized them, confirmed them, heard their confessions, gave them Holy Communion, married them, and buried them.

I would have to say the Middle Ages was not a time of regression.

At the start of the Middle Ages, at the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 AD, literacy had already been on the decline for two hundred years. The political unity of the Roman Empire had been crumbling at the same time. The Roman Empire was gradually getting more chaotic, with some periods of renewal, though they were never enough.

The fall of the Roman Empire was not a complete collapse of Roman Society. And as the Germanic groups that moved into the lands of the old empire, they came to regard themselves as land owners rather than land occupiers. They came to appreciate a written legal tradition, as opposed to an oral tradition, and they came into the Christian Church.

The first system for primary education was introduced in the Byzantine Empire in 425, and it became standard until the Empire was conquered in 1453. During that time, it was a requirement that military personnel be able to read and write, which had never been the case in the Roman Empire.

The oldest school in England was founded in 597 AD, only 120 years into the medieval period. Schools were being founded in Viking lands before the Viking age ended, at least two of which still exist. Universities started to open in 1088, and by the end of the Middle Ages, there were over 70 in Europe.

The Hagia Sophia, one of the worlds architectural triumphs, was buitl in the sixth century.

In the High Middle Ages, there was a great burst of energy in architecture with the introduction of the Gothic period.

The Late Middle Ages saw a rise in the middle class with the merchants of the Hanseatic League, the great banking families of Italy, such as the Medicis, and the Medieval Communal system, which was often ruled and regulated by primitive democracies.

The inventions of the middle ages form a long and impressive list.