Literature in the Church

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Medieval period was characterized by a single authority that was the Church. During the renaissance period, all that authority was disappearing, everything began to revive all the art, language, became more secular, use of printing press, focused on the individual, new languages, politics, and more people could read and learn about literature not only people like nobles, church, and kings. Many changes occurred during the medieval period to the Renaissance period. Art, language and the church are one of those who had more changes. The change from the medieval period to the renaissance period, had an effect on the language and subjects, including individualism, in church literature.
The language, variety of subjects, and individualism are some of the topics that changed between the medieval period and the renaissance period. The language changed took a turn very large between the medieval period and renaissance period, everything was different in both periods, and the church was an example of that changed, in medieval period the church was powerful involved in everything and dominated everyone from the richest to the poorest, The lives of medieval people of the Middle Ages was dominated by the church from birth to death. However, in the renaissance period the church became less important for people in that time. The bubonic plague was the cause that led people to stop believing in the church. During the bubonic plague many people died and people asked to the church for help but, the church did not how to answer. That is why people reveal to church. In medieval time people just wrote about god and church, that was the main form of literature. But in the renaissance, people became writing about new literature for example art, s...

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...ngs looked most realistic with shadows, his facial faces improved, the paintings were in 3D.They began to paint things Greek, for example the Greek gods paintings. The renaissance also improve art supplies like oil-paint and this was changed by Jan Van Eyck, Rogier Van Der Weyden and Hugo Van Der Goes.
Medieval Europe was dominated by the Roman regime of the Empire as a universal political dominion. Politics in the medieval time revolved around the issues of the nobility and the monarchy and the links to the practice of feudalism. The hierarchy was as follows based on the feudal order, King, nobility, Freemen (Merchants and larger farmers), and Peasants. By the Christian regime of the Church as a universal theocratic dominion. In the medieval period the Christian Church played a very important role in the politics, everything revolved around the issues of hierarchy

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