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The right to citizenship having been achieved in the ancient world, the Church created the medieval world, a mixture of antiquity, Christianity and Germanism, characterized by the strong bond between Church and State. Without the unilateral exaltation of romanticism — Christian civilization — and without the disregard of the Enlightenment - age of darkness — the author describes and analyzes the historical concatenation which delineated and defined medieval Christendom, presenting an overall impression of its development, from the initial phase, specified by the Anglo-Saxon mission and by the relation between the Church and the Frankish kingdom, going through urban life resurgence in the West and by the pontifical presumption of political and spiritual supremacy over Europe to the discrepancies between the Church demands and a world already changing — attempts at ecclesial reform and the development of national churches, the questioning of the theocratic principle by the principle of the people sovereignty and by the conciliar theory, seconded by humanism and the Renaissance.