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Freedom In The Middle Ages

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When the West came to the point of Middle Ages, people crossed the borders that had drawn on the subject of state and government power. There were two important events that leaded this changes: Christianity and feudalism.
By the formal recognition of Christianity and embracement of this religion throughout Europeans, religious thoughts and teachings has become the main features of this era. Even though the real Christianity concerns about the value of humans, I found middle Ages as a prison of freedom of mind and human rights. After embracement of Christianity, repression policy began to follow, and emperors and governments supported this pressure partly for their own political benefits. The religious system founded by the pope caused the arising of sovereignty of dogma and institutionalization of fear factors among people through inquisition courts, anathema, and indulgence. All the facts were searched only in the molds to be put by the church. In some sense, I believe the definition of freedom in the middle ages was not the independence from power, but the privilege and status of one class over another.
The second important event that shaped the middle ages in Europe was feudalism. The emergence of feudalism caused the disintegration and fragmentation of the …show more content…

There was nothing written or no steps forward until Magna Carta treaty. We could count it as the first movement on democratization, on the other hand, nobility had a hidden purpose. Their desire was not standing up for the peasants, but breaking the influence of royalty over the peasants so that they could have controlled them. Meanwhile, the birth of Islam in Arabian Peninsula, was a candlelight for the darkness of Europe to bring the equality among people. The Islamic approach on equality concept towards Muslims as well as non-Muslims will have affected the West by the Crusades later

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