SOSC 1731 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Diagram, Universal Mind, The Climax
30 Mar 2016
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The monastery, the guild, the church, served as formaive elements of the medieval town. Voluntary cooperaion and contractual obligaions and reciprocal duies partly replaced blind obedience and one-sided coercion. (315) We see more equality insilled in human development in the medieval town, ciizens, men or woman, had their duies and responsibiliies to accomplish. Religion gave way to commerce, faith" to credit" (315) The medieval town had succeeded as no previous urban culture had done. The majority of the inhabitants of a city were free men: except for special groups, like the jews, city dweller and ciizen were now synonymous terms. External control had now become internal control, involving self-regulaion and self-discipline, as praciced among members of each guild and corporaion. Sill obeying under a social structure of a hierarchal one. While the church, through its universal presence and mission, dominated every aspect of medieval life, the very success of this insituion embrangled it in the afairs of this world. (317)
