RELIGIOUS LIFE OF EUROPE

Religious life of Europe between 100 and 1600

Religious life of Europe between 100 and 1600

Introduction

It seems that humans have always felt the urge for searching for God, whether for explaining the sense of wonder and awe stimulated through specific sacred places or events, or for assuaging the distress in human soul, or for surviving in an environment that is hostile at a time when the safe delivery of healthy children, good weather and good hunting were crucial. This paper discusses the religious life in the medieval Europe between 100 to1600 in a holistic context along with discussing how religion it is related to the development of the intellectual and social life. Furthermore, the paper gives reference of a number of poems, literatures and works of different socialists and philosophers related to this discussion.

Discussion

Within Europe, post the religion wars that followed the reformation, peace's prices were growing society's secularization. The fashion amongst the monarchs within Roman-Catholic states was of keeping the churches at arm's length and severely curtailing its chronological power. Within protestant states, this got similar through the demands that each denomination needs to be addressed in the same way. This agreed with the growth of modern science, and with the Evangelical revivals, along with their severe stress on personal faithfulness. The outcome was that with the exclusion of occasions like Remembrance Sunday, coronations, etc., religion within Europe transformed into a personal matter rather than being a concern of a society. This is and was an aberration in global terms. Within majority of the countries outside the West, religions were observed as taking on of complete life (like Christianity does theoretically). For instance, within Islamic states, we can observe quite lucidly the impacts of overriding each life through Islamic practice; the whole thing is performed as per the divine will of God almighty (Koch & Schoell, 1839).

This is a discussion, which is also obsevred in various literatry works. Like Beowulf that has two main parts: the first occurs during the hero's youth Geat that names the poem, and tells how he comes to the aid of the Danes or Jutes, who suffered attacks from a ogre giant - Grendel - and after killing it, faces her terrible mother, the second part, Beowulf and the king of the Geats and fight to death with a fierce dragon. The events narrated in the epic poem Beowulf named would take place ...