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A 3 page paper which examines how recent scholarship has discovered that the peculiar social, cultural, and political forms that developed in medieval Europe are the source of distinctive Western institutions. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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of nearly 1,000 years, that has been alternately dubbed either the Middle Ages, the Medieval Period, or even the Dark Ages receives little more than a casual mention. Previously,
much of what has been known about the epoch that lasted from approximately 476 until 1400 A.D. has been attributed to Geoffrey Chaucers The Canterbury Tales. The Middle Ages
was often dismissed as a period of animalistic barbarism, based upon a feudal system that bears little or no resemblance to the Western world of the twenty-first century. Its
cultural, social, and political forms were deemed by Renaissance writers and historians as peculiar and little more than primitive aberrations. Fortunately, however, contemporary scholars have taken another look at
the Middle Ages, and have discovered quite the contrary - that it was during this time that the seeds of distinctive Western institutions were planted, which continue to be deeply
rooted today. Culturally speaking, all belief systems were generated by the increasing prominence of Christianity (Kehoe et al, 1997). In the Middle Ages, a persons religious affiliation, not his
solely his material wealth, began to characterize his status and the status of others. There was a sense of community developing on the basis of religious affiliation that extended
beyond the restrictive parameters of the aristocracy. Bartlett (2001) wrote, "Especially in... the Middle Ages... religion meant membership of a community much more than adherence to a set of
principles or beliefs... a sense in which one was born a Christian, a Muslim, or a Jew, just as one was born English or Persian" (p. 39). To this
day, concepts are formed based upon whether or not a person espouses Christianity, Judaism, or Islam. Because cultures were based upon religion, the attitudes that subsequently developed resonate with
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