How Did Christianity Influence Medieval Culture

During the middle ages, the Roman Catholic Church became the dominant power in Europe. The church becoming the established rule, Christianity starts working it's way into the daily lives of medieval people. This era of Christianity helped shaped the ways in which western medieval culture was built. Christian influence on the medieval people's beliefs, values, and behaviors quickly became fixed into medieval society. The Christian religion impacted medieval culture in many ways, primarily through monopoly, education, and literature. The Roman Catholic Church became a monopoly by adopting the feudalism way of life. Religion in medieval Europe was dominated by Christianity, so it became that all law would become governed by the Church. As people …show more content…
Exclusively for religious purposes, the univeristies attracted students and teachers to form guilds of learning. The growing schools attracted settlers and allowed for urban towns to be built around themselves, with some Univeristies attracting people from around the world. University students even brought pressure on townsfolk to have reasonable prices for meals and shelter. The univeristies were places for learning and debate. Programs in the schools included of grammar, geometry, astronomy, music, and other studies. The most famous of the religious schoolmen were known to be the Scholastics. These schoolmen inspired the movement of Scholasticism, which was an important movement in medieval intellectual life. The goal of this movement was to reconcile the two primary modes of knowledge: faith and reason. The movement helped to insprire other religious philosophers to have a rationalist approach to the church dogma. Theologian's such as Thomas Aquinas came to write and lecture wide varieties of theological and biblical subjects. In his major work Summa Theologica, Aquinas writes many questions and topics ranging on the nature of God to the ethics of money lending. Questions such as “Whether God exits?”, “Whether man has free choice?”, and “Whether man can merit eternal life without grace?”. As Aquinas gathers controversial questions, he then proceeds