The majority of people were peasants. The Church's role in medieval life in England The Catholic Church in medieval England was hugely powerful. William I’s rapid building programme of churches ...

Religion was important in England from c ... an individual had to read a verse from Psalm 51 in the Bible. In medieval England it was only priests and churchmen who could read.

Century England, a dark-skinned saint with a promiscuous past became a boundary-breaking cultural and religious icon. A new ...