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This 5 page paper considers the weighty influence the Catholic Church had in shaping and implementing law in this time period. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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a tremendous influence on the daily lives of those that lived in the High Middle Ages. Religion was the driving force in philosophy and practically every other aspect
of life. The concept of papal primacy (the belief that the Roman Catholic Church had precedence over other churches and beliefs simply as a God given right) was a
large shaper of practically every aspect of society. This belief was sometimes in juxtaposition, however, to the view of royal prerogative, the belief that the royal family in particular
could do whatever it wished to its subjects. Law Laws were written to protect the interests of clergy, royalty, and commoner alike. The law was a particularly important
vehicle for accomplishing the rigid control the Catholic Church had over the people of this time period but it was also a means of providing protection for at least some
of those people. In some cases, however, law was used to penalize those that found themselves in disfavor with the Church through no intentional act of their own.
The Catholic Church was a natural vehicle for the formation and even the administration of law. Catholic canon law, after all, has a
long history of development, a history stretching back some two thousand years in fact (Hartman x). In some respects canon law has been fluid, changing slightly in order to
reflect current times and issues. Law in general, after all, is designed to grow and develop as certain needs present themselves. Law can, in fact, be compared to
a living body, to an entity that takes it nourishment from its surroundings and develops into maturity on the basis of that nourishment. It could even be said that
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