Why was the Church so important in 12th Century England and Scotland
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"Centre for social activities especially during feast days"-Yeoman. Why was the church so important?? Well as you can see from this quote by Yeoman the church was very important to people both religiously and socially. There are many reasons the church was so important in 12th century England and Scotland. The main reason the Church was so important was because it had a very important religious role. In this essay I am going to go into depth and detail about this main reason and many other reasons.
The church in the 12th century had a very big religious role in people's lives. At local level priests looked after peasant's religious needs. These needs were things like sacraments which involved birth, deaths, marriages and people's last rites. At the regional level there were the bishops..