Personal Narrative: Life In The Dark Ages

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Life in the “Dark Ages” was unimaginably rough and horrendous for the people in Europe. Men, woman, children, and animals were cursed with diseases, plagues, and war. It is known that the most people would bathe was once a year if, they could. The Medieval Period sounds bad, and it was very but, good things also came out of that period that we still use today. While the poor and needy suffered plagues, the rich laughed and dined while drinking their wine. The life span for women was at most 24 years to live due to sickness and lifestyle of un-nourishment. When Rome fell, so did Catholicism. People thought that Christianity couldn’t have different types of Christianity. For example: Mormons, Lutheran’s, and Baptist’s. It was either you are a Christian or you aren’t a Christian at all. Many people died for believing in something as simple as believing that the Earth was round and not flat, for believing that you should eat or act a certain way. The lifestyle and morals of the British were so ruined and mixed up that they believed that prostitution and adultery was O.K or normal. In the beginning when confusion was striking at every doorstep, the Church made Christians pay money in order for them to hear their sins, and absolve them. …show more content…

A Church is the only place you would find me when fear surrounds me because, I feel as though when I am at His house, I have nothing to fear because He is right with me and will let nothing happen to me if it is not His will. In the case of being in the Dark Ages, my heart would be aching to go to a monastery but my mind would be screaming that it is a suicide mission. I mean I would proudly die for my faith but, since I have a younger brother and aging parents, I would be in charge to look after them and keep them out of harm’s way until they are

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