The Roman Catholic Church In The Middle Ages

One out seven people on the earth is Roman Catholic. “Roman Catholics in the world (nearly 1.1 billion) is greater than that of nearly all other religious traditions” (Roman Catholicism). The Roman Catholic Church is the largest religious tradition ever created. It was the first Christian church and its beginning can be traced back to Jesus’ twelve disciples. The Catholic Church is larger than all other christian churches combined. It is even larger than individual Isam religions Sunni and Shia. The church has made itself into a complex hierarchy from the people in the pew to the Pope at the top. The most complex institution ever created is the Roman Catholic Church.
The Roman Catholic Church has been around before the middle ages. It has hardly
The jobs that the church provided included artists, carpenters, stone masons, architects and authors. The church needed stone masons and carpenters to build the massive cathedrals for the bishops and archbishops to live in. “Some cathedrals took more than a hundred years to build. No effort or expense was spared to make them beautiful” (Hinds 23). It took more than a hundred years to build some cathedrals that would have provided a lot of work for stone masons and carpenters. Artists and architects were needed to make the cathedrals beautiful inside and out. Many great artists have made sculptures or paintings for the Roman Catholic Church; the paintings or sculptures were usually carved or drawn to depict a scene in the Bible. These paintings or sculptures of Bible scenes, helped people who cannot read understand some of the critical scenes in the Bible. The goal of the church in the middle ages is to help people spiritually, and artists helped achieve this goal of the church.
People in the middle ages, were helped by the Catholic Church spiritually. “it had become the legate of spiritual, administrative, and intellectual resources of the early centuries” (Guisepi). People in the middle ages, went to the church when they needed help spiritually. The church helped provide a meaning in life to common people. Some people wanted to get a from the busy world, and get closer to God. These people who wanted get away from the busy
“It thus had enormous influence on the development of the art and culture of the western world through the Middle Ages” (Patheos). Many people in the middle ages didn’t know how to read. One of the reasons was there wasn’t many books to read from. There wasn’t many books because all books would have been handwritten by monks in the Catholic Church monasteries. A large book like the bible would’ve taken months to copy. There are many myths that the Catholic Church locked away Bibles from the people so they couldn’t read the word of the Bible for themselves. The truth is that many people couldn’t even read. They kept the books locked up because they were valuable and didn’t want them to get ruined. The Church also kept literature alive because they were one of the few publishers of