The Medieval Period was a revolution in history that incorporated the infiltration of Christianity to medieval life. Throughout Europe during the Medieval period, Christianity was spreading rapidly and soon became deeply ingrained in different parts of society. As Christianity was integrated with daily life, the tradesman class flourished as they were needed and called to build places of worship, cathedrals. These massive cathedrals that were built from wooden scaffolds, chisels, and hammers not only were ideal for the tradesman to thrive, especially stonemasons, but also reflected the architecture of the Medieval Times that was religiously dominated. For example, the Canterbury Cathedral is considered to be the centre of pilgrimage after the famous death of Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Such cathedrals as this one were Catholic Churches that utilized the realistic fear of Hell and in return offering the promise of Heaven by joining the Church. The enormousness and sheer size of the 234 foot tower meant that money was always needed for supplies and upkeep that tradesman profited from which fueled there emergence in class. This form of art, architecture and stone working, integrates the ideas of the emergence in the non-noble wealthy and how religion triggered this change in society.
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On this post, it talks about the importance of religion during the medieval era. It says that religion contributed in the flourishing of the tradesmen. We also think that after the collapse of the Roman Empire, the previous economic structure lost its back bone and that religion contributed positively in the trade between Western Europe and East Asia. With the collapse of the Roman Empire and the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, the natural authority that people looked to was the church. This helps explain why so many people were willing to leave their homes and fight for the sake of the church. In that time, the church WAS the state
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