How the catholic church was a part of european culture in the middle ages

1) education (church had a monopoly at the area of education until the establishment of state/royal institutions: absolutism, 18th century), 2) high culture (in point 1 one can talk about universities but apart from that there were monasteries where the written culture was concentrated, i.d. wisdom of medieval and ancient or Arabian wisdom was concentrated there), 3) church financed arts (church was weathy enough to construct expensive pieces of arts, the same can be said about music it acted as benefactor), 4) stumping (some relious orders practices stumping - cultivating a land), 5) winery (various religious orders practiced winery or brewery).

Explanation: church had many functions in medieval society but also later. It always contributed to arts and sciences, philosophy and literature.

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