The Medieval Church played a far more important role in Medieval Europe than the Church does today. In Medieval Europe, the Church dominated everybody’s life. All Medieval people which are the village peasants and townspeople believed that God, Heaven and Hell all existed. The Catholic Church was the only church in Europe during the Middle Ages, and it had its own laws.
Church leaders such as bishops and archbishops sat on the king's council and played leading roles in government. Bishops, who were often wealthy and came from noble families, ruled over groups of parishes called "diocese."
From the very early ages, the people were taught that the only way they could get to Heaven was if the Catholic Church let them. Everybody would have been terrified of Hell and the people would have been told of the horrors awaiting for them in Hell in the weekly jobs they attended.The control the Church had over the people was total.
Peasants worked on Church land for free, They paid 10% of what they earned in a year to the church, this tax was called tithes. Tithes could be paid in either money or in goods produced by the peasant farmers. As peasants had not much money they sometimes had to pay in seeds, harvested grains and animals. This caused a peasant a lot of problems as seeds for example would needed to feed a family a family the following year. What the Church got in tithes was kept in huge barns, a lot of the grain they stored would have been eaten by rats or poisoned by urine. If they peasants did not pay tithes then when they die their soul will be led to hell