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This 6 page paper provides support for the thesis that the lack of scientific knowledge, exacerbated by an exploitative government, was responsible for the beliefs of the people. Quotes from Dante's Inferno provides much support for the thesis. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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This made sense as, at the time, the people had few other outlets. The phenomenon was exacerbated by a governmental system that exploited religious crime and punishment as a means
of control. While the idea that government was largely responsible for the beliefs of the people is not new, as it was expressed in Dantes Inferno, it is something
worth exploring. Further, Inferno provides support for the thesis that the reason the people in the Middle ages believed in the occult was related to their lack of knowledge and
the exploitation by the government combined. First, in looking at the times, it is important to see just what the people did believe at the time. Clearly, there was religion
and this provided fodder for the people to construct their ideas about the afterlife. In fact, in studying the Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity, several ideas come about concerning the
social and cultural evolution of Christianity (Barnes 441). One quite striking thesis is that Latin Christiandom did not assimilate the German tribes, but rather the German tribes were able to
enforce their own cultural values on the Latin Church (441). This suggests that the religious influence of the church did not necessarily create social influences but rather the outside influences
on the church affected social considerations and they merely had the appearance of emanating from the church itself. Additionally, it should be understood that there is a contrast between Latin
Christianity as a "universalist" religion which had become one of "world-rejecting "; yet, the folk religions practiced by the Germanic tribes, which served as extensions of their communities, were
"world-accepting" (441). Clearly, the people of the church were not immersed in the word of the church but used it as a springboard for personal spiritual growth. It should
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