De la Iglesia medieval a la Reforma protestante

Abstract

Towards the end of the 5th century A.D., after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the European hegemonic power was apparently empty; however, Christianity as a well-consolidated socio-cultural structure, fulfilled the requirements to take over the organization of Europe during the arrival of the barbarian peoples and to do so until the Renaissance. This work was carried out from a qualitative methodological approach, based on the analysis of historical literature, to try to determine how the transition from Empire to Christian predominance took place. It can be observed how Christianity, as a socio-political structure, and not so much as a religion, took over the succession of the dominant power in medieval Europe. Usually, when approaching Christianity as an object of study, the religious point of view is dominant, however, the effects that the Christian phenomenon has had on the political, economic and cultural levels are very significant, which is why it is considered necessary to make a somewhat separate approach to the religious component of Christianity. Christianity indisputably consolidated itself as a structure of power and social organization in Europe and held this characteristic, in an unquestionable way, practically until the Protestant Reformation.