- Chuch very powerful as an organisation
taught sinners go to hell, ----- people also belived in DIVINE RIGHT
- Society (HIERARCHAL STRUCTURE): split into three categories - clergy, lords, peasants.
Clergy = religous officals, eg priess(conducted religous services) and archbishops
Lords = wealthy landowner
Peasants = lived in the countryside, poor, usually farmers
- heavy reliance upon land for food and work
Famine, War, Plague and Harvest failures = devastating impacts on food supplies = anger
- people also illiterate and lived together in small communties = tension and arguments
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