The Image of Medieval Western Europe

The agreement must be achieved through a rally rather than a court decision. Therefore, the political structure has its own authority, and religion is included in a certain area of ​​the government. Religion has a powerful power and is structured similar to the government as an independent institution that affects part of medieval Western European culture. The local bishop ignores the priest while the church hierarchy puts the pope at the top. The organization of the church gives it extensive power over most Western European spiritual order.

Today there are various sects (religious groups) in Christianity. These include England church and Lutheran church. Most of Eastern Europe and Turkey are orthodox, but in the medieval Western Europe the church was a "Catholic" church. "Catholics" means that the church is universal and belongs to all people. All Catholic countries in Western Europe are part of a community known as the Christian world. They unite and believe that the Pope is the leader of the Earth Church.

Churches and countries of medieval Europe include relationships between the Catholic church and various European monarchies and other countries between the end of the authority of the West Roman era of the 5th century and the beginning of the early 16 th century religious reform It is. In the Middle Ages, the relationship between the church and the feudal state has developed a lot. The power struggle between the king and the Pope formed the Western world. The church gradually became the definition agency of the Roman Empire. In 313 Emperor Constantine enacted the Order of Milan, declared tolerance to Christianity, and in 325 convened the first council of Nicene, including the creeds "St. Catholic and Apostolic Church." Emperor Theodosius, I will be the laws of the National Church of Nicaea, the National Church of the Roman Empire, and the 380 Thessaloniki.

Along with the decline of the Western Roman Empire, Western Europe was a loose land until the rise of Christianity became a truly unified structure. In ancient Rome, even if there were different people in the Empire, people used Rome 's country or empire to define themselves and gave them a sense of unity. When the West Rome collapsed, this belief based on Roman cultural identity disappeared and people were unable to identify themselves as before. Christianity fills this vacuum by linking people to religion rather than specific countries or cultural groups. In medieval Europe, Christianity became a unification force, and defined the meaning of Europe. Christianity gives legitimacy to political leaders by showing that they are supported by God