The Church shape the social, political, economic, military and creative institutions
The economic changes of cities created new tensions in medieval society. These tensions permeated boundaries of class, gender, ethnicity, and religion. The interaction between the classes of rural and urban led to the find of new political organizations and laws designed to balance the needs. In the economic growth and social turmoil, the middle ages witnessed the finding of Europe’s political boundaries and the growth of governments throughout the continent. The creative tensions in medieval society and politics led to the new ideas, such as those in the debates over faith and reason in the new universities. They also led the rise of the new religious orders and ways of spirituality. New ideas emerged in religion during the hard time between orthodox Christianity and numbers of heresies. The influence of the Jewish and Muslim scholarship, the rise of the educated class of job career scholars, and the growth of an urban reading public also gave to this cultural and intellectual ferment in Europe.