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Christianity In The Middle Ages
Christianity originated around 476 a.d. and is a breakaway religion from Judaism. This religion played a major role throughout the Middle Ages in society and politics. In the early Middle Ages after the fall of Rome about the time of the dark ages, the reorganization brought about the desire for religion, as a belief system for the desolate people at the time. The Christians church became feudalized, full of corruption, greed and very materialistic, but its presence did bring hope and stability to the empire of Rome at the time. (Sporre. P. 240).
Christianity had spread its wings very rapidly thru the years from the teachings of St. Paul and also Jesus over the centuries and conflicted greatly with the Romans. The Romans were angry that the Christians had ignored the gods of the Romans, and instead worshipped only the Christian God. This caused great concerns for the rulers of the Roman Empire and so the Christians were persecuted and dealt ...

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