What generalization can you make about the relationship between politics and religion in the middle ages

so-called primitive Christianity (times of Apostles) was not totally apolitical (there was always politics in the background), but it concentrated on spiritual matters. In 313 Christinity became official state religion (Edict of Milan, Constantine the Great) because the emperor understood that Christianity/religion can be a powerful political weapon ! In contrast to other religions institutionalized Christianity has its official head/pope which is viewed as a God´s/Christ´s minister on Earth so pope became already in early middle ages a God´s agent on Earth, his spirirual power. Popes consecrated representatives of profane/secular power (kings/queens/emperors) and in Middle Ages spiritual and profane power were viewed as as two aspects of the power of God on Earth. These relations became conflituous in 11th century (German emperor Henry IV and Canossa, 1044...here emperor was humiliated). Then we can see only conflicts and rivalry (king Philippe IV Le Bel, Louis the Bavarian, English king Henry VIII etc.).

Explanation: To say that relations were only conflituous is of course generalization, but it was really quite common.

the exact role and status of women in the roman world, and indeed in most ancient societies, has often been obscured by the biases of both ancient male writers and 19-20th century ce male scholars, a situation only relatively recently redressed by modern scholarship which has sought to more objectively assess women's status, rights, duties, representation in the arts, and daily lives; and all this from almost exclusively male source material dealing with a male-dominated roman world.

women in mythology

unlike some other ancient cultures such as the greeks who had formed a creation myth where woman was a creature secondary to man and, more specifically, in the form of pandora, a bringer of unhappiness and vices, the romans had a more neutral approach where humanity, and not specifically the male, was created by the gods from earth and water. ovid's metamorphoses, for example, does not specify whether the first human was a man or a woman. at least in a physical sense then men and women were not regarded as belonging to a different species as in the greek world, a view often reiterated in roman medical treatises.