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During the Middle Ages people were both ignorant of many ideals and beliefs and because of this they did not try new ways. Not trying new ways and sticking to the same thing is conservative, connecting conservative and ignorant as characteristics of the Middle Ages.

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The Middle Ages being both religious and ignorant connect because instead of being thoroughly educated and being aware of other ideas, people based ideas and beliefs in their faith.

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Conservative people don't try new ways and don't try to progress with new things because they don't like to change ways. In the evidence it tells us that many historians believe the Middle Ages was a time of pause. When there is no change people are sticking to their old ways because that is the only way they can do anything without change. Sticking to old ways is conservative too making not progressing conservative. The evidence also explains why they did not change and they did not change because of religion and what they already believed they knew. When you stick to something like religion and don't progress it is conservative which directly relates to our characteristic of the Middle Ages.

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Whilst writing about The Black Plague, Michael Platiensis describes its contagious factors. He states that an infected person could infect a healthy person just by speaking to them. In the modern age, it is believed that a disease can't spread just by speaking to someone. The disease would have to be spread through various means, such as touching an infected surface, or by fluid means. Therefore, ignorance is displayed by this statement, an example of The Middle Ages being an ignorant time.

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In his letter to the King, Pope Gregory mentioned the fact that the King should show respect for God, and for him to progress in faith. Since a religious figure is using very Christian terms and meaning in a letter to the king, this exhibits an acceptance of being religious and using its terminology. Therefore, The Middle Ages was a religious time.

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In the letter that King Henry IV sent to Pope Gregory after receiving a letter from Pope Gregory, King Henry says that the pope has never been able to lead on be a position of authority without making mistakes and causing mass confusion. This is directly accusing Pope Gregory of leading a terrible job and not helping at all. When Henry says making it a source of confusion is telling the Gregory that what he did was bad and did not do the job correctly. Also when the king says that Gregory makes it a curse to people instead of something good. In other words the king is telling him that the he does at terrible job at what he is supposed to be doing. This is an example of accusing.

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"for you have never held any office in the Church without making it a source of confusion and a curse to Christian men instead of and honor and a blessing"(Henry IV).

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"In their bones they bore so virulent a disease that anyone who only spoke to them was seized by a mortal illness and in no manner could evade death" (Platiensis).

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"Indeed so small was their own contribution that historians of science are apt to regard the Middle Ages as something of a pause... The Middle Ages were the age of faith, and to that the extent they were unfavorable to scientific speculation"(Postan).

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"Destitute of knowledge or education" (Merriam-Webster)

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"the tendency to prefer an existing or traditional situation to change" (Merriam-Webster).

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"containing or expressing accusation" (Merriam-Webster).

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"...and that you show due reverence, not to us, indeed, but to omnipotent God, in those things which especially make for the advance of the Christian faith and the well-being of the Church" (Pope Gregory VII).

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"relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity" (Merriam-Webster).