90% of the population of Europe was made up of rural peasants. By the end of Roman rule in the West, only some of those peasants had been fully Christianized. This episode is about the efforts by the Church to spread its message to the peasantry, and how it changed in the process.
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&lt;p&gt;Sound effects from &lt;a href='http://freesound.com'&gt;freesound.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And &lt;a href='https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/'&gt;https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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90% of the population of Europe was made up of rural peasants. By the end of Roman rule in the West, only some of those peasants had been fully Christianized. This episode is about the efforts by the Church to spread its message to the peasantry, and how it changed in the process.
Links: www.instagram.com/darkagespod
Webpage for this Episode: https://darkagespod.com/2026/02/18/65-church-and-people/ 
Buy me a coffee with ko-fi.com/darkagespod
Logo Art by Jonas Lau Markussen @jonaslaumarkussen
Title Music:"The Britons" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Additional music by Ensemble Organum
Sound effects from freesound.com
And https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/

The Dark Ages Podcast

65. Church and People

65. Church and People

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