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For centuries, the Catholic Church straddled the world of medieval Europe. Every king, queen, knight, serf and soldier lived and died within the embrace of the Catholic faith. The church was not ...

In the nineteenth century, Russia was a European power but in many ways it was trapped in the past. Twenty-two million Russians were serfs ... based on agriculture, a medieval society.