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medieval man and his relationship with God

Brunegel painting by Pieter the Elder.

If in ancient times, the man was the center of study and assessment, in the "Middle Ages" everything will revolve around the immaterial, of religion and God. Relegating the man and his material needs, desires, and thoughts through second grade.

The best example I can bring, is the representation they had, the gods and God in these two periods of history.

If by Greek or Roman gods were ultimately represented in the image and likeness of man, his passions, desire, physical fitness, but also of his happiness, joy and feasting. For medieval man, is he who is to represent the image and likeness of God but a God very different from those who knew the men of antiquity.
This point is substantial and essential when understanding differences in the way of life in these two stages.
will be thanks to these fundamental differences, the renaissance man (Man that new value to the individual, as a center of study, discussion and historical assessment) appoint to this period of history, "Middle Ages, considering a dark period, a decline of humanity among the old and the new revival of humanities from the XVI century. According to the vision

Renaissance man of the Middle Ages there remained immersed in a cultural and intellectual obscurantism relegated him to a miserable condition and devolution because his whole life was dedicated to not make any mistakes against God and his laws and not lose one of the few places in paradise after death. That is, the medieval man lived his life after death, thought the 24 hours a day on it. Its proximity overwhelmed him, forcing him to think about every attitude, action or thought I had, if one was going against what God imposed as a way of life. everyone on earth was relegated after the spiritual world, but from an apocalyptic vision, denial and grief.
Only those who suffered and endured in the underworld, the sky would win and the more we get close to these parameters, we would be closer to the prize.

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ONE OF THE CAUSES OF THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. CARPE DIEM

ONE OF THE CAUSES OF THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
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1-emergence of Eastern religions.

One of the most popular Eastern religions was that of the god Mithras
was connected with the sun.


The emergence of Eastern religions in the Roman Empire, was undermining the relationship of man with his world, his state and its official religion. Formerly

man societies of Greece and Rome, lived for maintenance and durability of the state and the community. There were personal and individualistic thoughts among people of pagan antiquity. One
born, lived and died for the maintenance and survival of the common good and the nation.
Religion had as one of its purposes; encourage, motivate and teach the way of community sacrifice, as in antiquity, religion and the nation-state are intertwined in a single, indivisible entity. All

a person's life revolved around the needs of society and have been, closely related to religion and commanding officer forced to follow the fees charged by the state, they were the same as those that ordered the gods mortals. But unlike these conceptions and traditions, religions and beliefs that came from the east in the early first century AD, sponsoring a new vision of the man-gods, man-state. They called for a personal salvation and individual soul, an intimate walk away from the firstborn order of existence, the service body and soul to a theocratic state.
result of these new influences, it was causing a gap between the relationship of subjugation of the individual against the masses, motivating a more intimate relationship with the gods.
The best reflection of the dramatic changes brought
Eastern religions, was observed in the aspirations Roman burial of man.
Where once the reward after the death of a Roman was to be recognized and honored by the new generations, because the services he and his predecessors had given to state and community. After the emergence of these new religions, the reward was no longer in the material world, but in a world heritage, after this earthly life and earned through personal sacrifice.

The new hero was no longer the man who sacrificed his life for fame, honor and glory of Rome and the state, but the man represented by the monks and Christian priests, who now sacrifice their lives for the salvation of souls in the afterlife.

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found at Pompeii Mosaic representing the uncertain fate. CARPE DIEM

. This word, as used throughout the world, has its origins in the ancient world and especially the Romans.
Much of the ancient peoples believed that fate was not in his hands and was run by gods that made their lives what they wish. For this reason, many people that in his view, had little interference in the future of their lives, believed that what he had to do with the short and uncertain life, was living in the moment and not worry about the future.

Why worry about a future that was driven by other forces? such as the Fates, who spun, tangled, and finally cut it, when they wanted, the thread of life. So many men and women looking to satisfy all your desires and passions hiding behind the famous sentence and was because this concept of life, which is poorly understood the maxims of the famous philosopher of the Garden, Epicurus.

A good example of the strength I had this conception of life, can be found in the story that Herodotus, the father of history, a strange custom of the Egyptians who performed before a major feast.

According to this historian, before the servants came in with the food, walked an empty sarcophagus among the guests and only after all to see, appeared all the food and everyone could eat. Judging from
A by Herodotus, the Egyptians performed the rite in order for everyone to realize how short of life, and understand that if they were now eating with friends, tomorrow maybe, could be dead. Therefore, it was better to eat, drink their fill because no one knows the future.

also found many examples of this philosophy of life in the Roman world and one of the best exponents of this view of life, was the poet Horace, who wrote about this in many of his odes, and epigrams Epode. One of the most importates, Oda is 11.

"You do not ask-sin know! - What purpose to me, what gave you the gods, Leuconoe, or consult the Babylonian cabal.
much better to endure whatever comes, and if we have more winters us concedido Jupiter o si es el último éste que ahora deja sin fuerza al mar Tirreno batiéndolo contra los escollos que se le enfrentaba!
Sé sabia, filtra el vino y, siendo breve la vida, corta la esperanza larga. Mientras estamos hablando, habrá escapado envidiosa la edad: aprovecha el día, fiando lo menos posible en el que ha de venir."

Horacio. Oda 11
Epodos y Odas. Editorial Alianza. pg 77.