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Politics and Religion Of the Middle Age

Politics and Religion Of the Middle Age. By: Mirella, Matt, Khaite, & Andy. Politics. Feudalism was the major political system of the Middle Ages. People were ruled by kings or emperors People must obey the rulers Upper nobility class maintained control over the lower class.

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Politics and Religion Of the Middle Age

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  1. Politics and ReligionOf the Middle Age By: Mirella, Matt, Khaite, & Andy

  2. Politics • Feudalism was the major political system of the Middle Ages. • People were ruled by kings or emperors • People must obey the rulers • Upper nobility class maintained control over the lower class

  3. Politics Continued… • King was considered a religious figure. • Upper nobility class maintained control over the lower class • Medieval Christians held that Christ was in some sense a king. • The new testament included texts that seemed to forbid Christians to use force.

  4. Religion • From birth to death, whether a peasant, a serf, a noble a lore or a king- life was dominated by the church and Medieval religion. • The lives of many Medieval people including various orders of monks and nuns were dedicated to the Catholic church/religion.

  5. Religion • Disputes of the Crusades led to the split between the Eastern and Western Christian Churches, the Great Schism • Crusade- holy wars intended to liberate Jerusalem from Muslim control

  6. Religion Continued… • The Catholic church was a very powerful institution, it was able to influence the king. • Religions of the Middle Age: Catholic, Christian, and Muslim.

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