Just curious.Did the life of ordinary people change much in England after Christianity supplanted paganism?
Bang went the Sunday lie-in.Did the life of ordinary people change much in England after Christianity supplanted paganism?
Yes they were enslaved by the church which ran the entire feudal system. The Roman Catholic Church ran the monarchies, and the Lords and Knights owned the serfs/slaves. Christianity is a slave religion, they get taught to never question their supposed authorities and be a good slave for their masters.Did the life of ordinary people change much in England after Christianity supplanted paganism?
Yes, fear and uncertainty took hold and have been present ever since..Did the life of ordinary people change much in England after Christianity supplanted paganism?
We did not supplant paganism. That is an overly-common misconception.Did the life of ordinary people change much in England after Christianity supplanted paganism?
There was a vengeance culture with anglo-saxons and vikings that took several centuries to overcome. Someone would hurt someone in one's family and it was expected one would return the wound. So it was rather like an Aeschylus tragedy where one could end up dead for no fault of one's own.
There were also more possibilities for education via the monastery system than before. Monasteries were popular then as society was very violent (feuding kings, vengeance conflicts). In a monastery one could live a peaceful life.Did the life of ordinary people change much in England after Christianity supplanted paganism?
Why do people always think We Christians Supplant Paganism.
Totally agree William I
The Romans brought with them an Empire, Christianity is The Religion of the Empire. I am sure the Celts and Britons would be more worried about the battles they brought.
The Celts kept the Romans at bay for ages and actually it was them that adapted this New Religion in to something called Celtic Christianity. There is still Celtic Crosses existing from that time.
My personal opinion is it is like the CoE Reformation, many people date CoE as a Tudor invention but the Church of England actually existed at far back as 300's with English Bishops at the Council of Arles.
CoE really means Ecclessia Anglican or English Church.
Henry VIII brought about reformation with Thomas Cranmer, at the time the English Church was part of the Roman Church. As Henry dissolved the old monasteries and turned them in to great Anglican Cathedrals it was often the old Abbot of that order who would be the incumbent at the new establishment.
I am pretty sure it would have been the same with the Invasion of the Roman Empire, remember they brought civilisation much of it remains today in the countries they successfully conquered and many pagans would have converted to the new structureDid the life of ordinary people change much in England after Christianity supplanted paganism?
Your previous respondants have indicated that it was not an overnight change, but rather a slow process. So while of course the lives of everyday people did change a great deal as Christianity gradually infected all the more ancient traditions, it would be hard to say how much of the change was due to Christianity, and how much to technological developments in the meantime.Did the life of ordinary people change much in England after Christianity supplanted paganism?
People's everyday lives were much more affected by the various invasions and settlements that occurred than by the conversions of various kings.
Christianity didn't really take hold until after the Norman invasion although by this point the Anglo-saxon upper classes were already staunch Christians (the last pagan king in England besides the invading Danes had been King Penda of Mercia in the mid 600's) William built many churches up and down the country to help secure his new territory.
Christianity really only became the religion of the everyman some 400 years later and even then many older practises still continued just without their original connotations.
Interestingly the law in the UK only officially allowed for religions other than the CofE when the European Human Rights Act of 1998 came into force in 2001, prior to that religious freedom was simply assumed.
