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Middle Ages Research Paper

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As a new era called The Middle Ages emerged from the fall of the Roman Empire, the Catholic Church rose to a dominant religious and political power. The Roman Empire became a religious empire in the early Middle Ages, then later developed into the Holy Roman Empire when Charlemagne was crowned by Pope Leo III and became the first emperor to serve under papal authority.
The early part of the Middle Ages is called the Dark Ages for various reasons. First, during this period, there was a stagnation of intellectual development or advancement. Second, The feudalism was the major form of the political system, giving little opportunity for poor people to improve their life and social status. Next, the Catholic church with the power of the imperial state behind …show more content…

As a result, Ireland’s introduction of Christianity did not come from Roman Catholic, but from their Celtic faith (Kienel, 1998, p. 69). Irish people loved learning, and the education was purely scripture- based, and the level of learning was superior to others in the Catholic Empire.
In Germany, Emperor Charlemagne, the first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire made a great contribution to education when he invited Alcuin, a schoolmaster from England to revive his palace school. Away from the tight control of Pope Gregory, Alcuin and Charlemagne were able to advance education in his empire even though it lasted only for Charlemagne’s lifetime(Kienel, 1998, p.72).
Besides cathedral education, palace schools and trade schools, another form of education called Chivalric education was alive and well in the Holy Roman Empire. Chivalric education came out of feudalism with the main objective of producing knights. It was similar to Spartan education in a sense that there was little academic learning involved (Kienel, 1998, p. 73) and heavy emphasis on military

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