Religion in medieval Europe was very important in every area of daily life, it was predominately controlled by Christianity. The church in that era had tremendous wealth, government power and authority over people's lives. The towns were located around the local church and they would devote their time to building new civilizations.
First, the Catholic Church was the only church in Europe. It obtained it's wealth by putting the fear over the Peasants so they would work for free on the Church land. The Church had total control over them. There were two groups of peasants, freemen and serfs. Freemen paid the noble for the rights to farm the land. They worked