The church was one of the most powerful organizations throughout the Middle Ages. It played a very significant role in the feudal system (which was the order of class structure used in this time). Churches were being built across the country and, not only were they a way to express your religious beliefs, but they were also a social obligation. The Pope was a very powerful figurehead in that time and people believed that he was God's representation on earth. No one dared to go against God and, therefore, the Pope so this is why the church held great power over the lives of the people in the Middle Ages.
The Roman Catholic Church. It was well organized even when a lot of the regions we now think of as countries were disunited groups under various kings and princes and lords, it owned immense amounts of property, and it had a huge influence over the secular leaders.
the Roman Catholic church.
The Church
They were usually lords, nobles, or knights
They were some of the largest and grandest buildings
There was no explorers in the middle ages. When exploration started that is when the middle ages ended.
Before the middle ages was Anquity (Greeks and Romans) and after the middle ages was the Renissance
Charlemagne was without doubt the most powerful man in western Europe in the Early Middle Ages. He ruled a country that included most or all of current France, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Belgium, along with major parts of Italy and Austria.
church?
The Christian Church was the single most powerful social organization in Europe from the Middle Ages to the end of the Victorian era.
Roman Catholic
They were all powerful in their domain.
A Lord was a powerful noble
Yes, the Church was very powerful during the Middle Ages.
In the Early Middle Ages, and in the rest of the middle ages in the West, the Pope was most powerful. In the later middle ages in the East, it was the Patriarch of Constantinople.
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The cathedrals