Medieval Religion

Cardinals were Church officers, usually archbishops, who had the additional authority to elect a pope, should one be needed.

Especially with the conflicts of the medieval period, its difficult to sort the chickens from the eggs. In order to impose a religious faith on others, you'd want a noble with an army behind you. If you're a nobleman seeking power and wanting to have a cause that rallies people willing to get killed in wars, religion can be a good cause to sell.

it is in middle age

Christianity (Catholic and Orthodox) had been the religion of Europe for centuries by 1,000 and in those days religion was the centrepiece of life. People were much more religious back then.

Not necessarily, not many people even rich people were literate a king might have had an adviser to read for him.

It was everything it controlled every aspect of life for everyone, it was life

Church wall paintings covered a wide range of religious subjects: Heaven and hell, the lives of the Saints, Bible stories, the life and crucifixion of Christ, the Virtues overcoming the Vices and so on.

The point of all of these was to illustrate these subjects for people who could not read; paintings of the Last Judgement helped the priest to communicate the Bible message to an audience who could not read about it for themselves.

Very few original medieval wall paintings survive today, but thanks to the work of E W Tristram a large number have been recorded and published in his three books on the subject.

There are many different aspects. But the main differnce between the traditions & beliefs in the middle ages and that at present day is that in the MAs, traditions & beliefs are much more tightly tied up with politics and goverment. Sometimes they are part of laws.

None, since Edward II lived long after Thomas Becket died. Thomas lived at the time of king Henry II.

After the murder of Thomas Becket the Archbishopric remained vacant for two years. The king wanted to install his own candidate (the bishop of Meaux), but the monks insisted on holding a free and fair election.

The monks chose Robert, the abbot of Bec in Normandy, but he was too nervous to accept the position of archbishop. The murder of Becket continued to have an impact for some time . . .

The monks held another election and this time Richard, Prior of Dover was selected. This choice was not supported by the king, who appealed against the decision (he still thought he should have full control over Church matters). Despite this, Richard was made archbishop of Canterbury in 1174 and he remained so until his death in 1184.

The Catholic Church was the only church in the Middle Ages and the pope ruled the church and monarchies of Europe.

the Christian CHURCH BECAME THE CENTER

if you havent got the moey/equipment to go on a plgrimage or buy your way to heaven then its is a easy option as nuns and moks are devoted to god and go straight to heaven

The Catholic Church maintained a number of schools in the Middle Ages, all of which taught Latin. Latin was the common language of scholars of the time, and just about all scholars, everywhere in Western Europe, spoke, read, and wrote in Latin.

The Catholic Church also had a large number of monasteries. They were all over the European countries and very few people did not live close to one. These monasteries all had to communicate with each other, and so packets of mail were carried from one to another. They carried mail all across Europe, and many people were able to correspond by mail because they were able to get their letters carried by the monastic carriers.

during the middle ages, people took a religious view that society expressed god's will.

The medieval popes had a series of problems with monarchs who wanted to take some of the power of the Church. There were three major issues. One of these was that the Church owned a huge amount of land, and did not pay taxes on it. Another was that the clergy had a benefit, called benefit of clergy, which freed them from secular courts; if a clergyman was accused of a crime, he would be tried by the Church rather than an ordinary court. Also, the kings wanted control over who was made bishops in the cathedrals of their countries.

In the conflicts that arose over these issues, kings and emperors were subject to excommunication. When a king was excommunicated, the people who had obligations to him were often freed of those obligations. People who made oaths of loyalty were excused from those oaths. Countries that had treaties were excused of those treaties. The result was that a powerful leader could suddenly find himself without much of the support he was used to. King John of England, his father King Henry II, and Emperor Henry IV all suffered from problems from excommunication.

There are links below to articles dealing with excommunicated monarchs.

As part of their relationship with the king, the lords always had to provide military support for him. They had to be ready for war.

Most churches got Bibles so the clergy could read the liturgy.

Many churches had bells, though they were expensive, and these were used to call people to church, to call people so they could be told of important events, and as warnings

Many churches go pews for people to sit on.

Women were protected by the Church in a number of ways. The Church ran convents, which were places where women could devote their lives to prayer and contemplation, but were also places where women who were afraid, abused, or simply fugitives from whatever situation, could live in safety. The convents provided women with educations and work doing such things as making medicine, caring for sick people, copying books and music, providing music for local churches and cathedrals, and caring for fugitives.

The Church also lobbied with rulers to provide protection for women with just laws, and to protect them during wars and other times of trouble.

There are links below.

No, everybody was just extremely religious, after all, without scientific evidence in those days what else could they have believed it was? People gave a percentage of their earnings and crops to the church because they believed that if you respected the house of God, you would be much more likely to go to heaven, very religious people indeed.

The building of new monasteries in Europe had a direct impact from the allocation of a space where potential converts could be convinced. The presence of monasteries surely attracted attention as well as gave a vantage point for evangelists of the time. But that is the obvious answer - less obvious but just as important, if not more important, was the role of monasteries in perpetuating Christian texts. Monks would transcribe important Christian documents such as the Bible and would keep copies safe in their libraries for posterity. Without the work of monk scribes, the Bible would have been far less prevalent in Europe.

There are a couple of ways to answer your question.

A nave (Latin navis, "ship") is "the long central section directly inside the main (liturgical west end) doors" according to Wikipedia. (See the Wikipedia article for more information.)

In some churches, there are miniature models of ships. They may be gifts from parish members who have been rescued from an accident on a ship, or a memorial object of a naval accident.

These were the source to God. The Catholic church taught that to communicate with God that man had to go through the church and the churches were used as "teaching tools" to tell the stories of the bible. Most people couldn't read so the stores were told in the windows and Stations of the Cross. The chruch was the center of the city/town as well.

Lost. The king had his head cut off.

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The King did not have Thomas Becket beheaded.

Becket was murdered by 4 knights who thought they would win the King's favour by ridding him of the troublesome Archbishop. He was hacked to death. Afterwards the knights responsible for this were disgraced and the cathedral became a huge pilgrimage site.

Becket may have lost his life, but in a way he won the argument by becoming a martyr to his faith.

There was no standard position for the church within a medieval village; it could be sited anywhere inside or outside the village boundary. Many English churches are at one end of the medieval village street, which would be mainly occupied by domestic buildings. Others are placed centrally.

The "end of the village street" option is clearly seen in the excavations at the abandoned medieval village at Wharram Percy, where the two manor houses and peasant dwellings are ranged around the central road and the church, priest's house and mill are together at the southern end.

There was certainly no specific reason for the positioning of the church in relation to other buildings.