The Importance Of Social Life In The Middle Ages

Without modern technology social life in the Middle Ages was define by your family, community and those around you regardless of what kind of skills or field you were in. The majority of people did not live in large cities like our society do today. There were limited social contact except with their village or family which was their community network. I think their society was a little dull comparing to today’s society, because they had a daily standard routine not saying our society doesn’t have a routine as well, but it just seems just a little more interesting.

The visitation of the Black Death cause many individuals to lose their lives in the mid-14th century just the name alone sound frightening. The disease subsisted in two forms, when contracted through an insect bite or airborne. In either circumstance the victim usually last a couple of days between initial contagion and death. The symptoms are extremely high fever which includes vomiting and swollen lymph nodes. The Black Death can stay dormant for many years without any detection. There were no cure for this disease and it could not be control every church had a pit for the dead, which was placed on top of each other. This disease was extraordinary because within a short period of

time it became an epidemic which cause thousands of death. Traces of this disease still live within our society today, because this bacteria is spread through rodents that’s in a high compacted area.

These areas were called “plague reservoir or plague focus” this epidemic increased among humans when there was any type of close habitation with any rodents. If one rat had the infection it would spread among the entire colony, which would only take a couple of days for the rest to become contaminated.
The church had new challenges during the in the 10th century because numerous members starting following Catharism.

The Catharism theory was that evil existed throughout the material world and the only good was the spiritual. These individuals did not believe in the Catholic church or Christians, because they considered them to be false. Cathars were protected by some of the heads of course, which cause a number of people to convert. Many heads crusade against them which eventually created a war between “Northern and Southern French nobles.” Even though Northern succeeded the ward many individuals remained secret Cathars. The church was not satisfied with this results and this is where the inquisitions enters the

picture.

Scientist have never believe in what the church taught and this created a big issue during the Middle Ages even in our society scientist don’t really believe in the church. In those days the cathedral would charge anyone with heresy if they try and use science above the church teachings. The church was a little skeptical about the teaching of science, but did not block individual from studying science. Even though science did not progress during the Middle Ages the church finally reorganized how important it was and the benefits of medical advancements.