Medieval Europeans have a strong legal awareness, the concept of the rule of law, not only in England, France and Italy, in Germany, lagging behind the development of the country,also win support among the people.The state set up a sound legal system.Nobody can can not change the law at will,including the authority.And the private property should be protected by law.(Voegelin,382)In Britain and other European countries, except the protection of private property, in accordance with the law, the procedural justice is also firmly rooted in people’s mind.
The sound law helps people to form the tradition of rule that firstly established the principle of judicial independence in the world.
2.3The progress of the culture文化的进步
The new scientific method promotes the prosperity of culture.
It can be learned from this date: “The shock of industrial and urban growth generated an outpouring of commentary on the need for social reforms. Painters, poets, and especially novelists joined in the chorus warning about rising tensions.Many who wrote on social issues expected middle-class women to organize their homes as a domestic haven from the heartless process of upheaval.Yet despite the emphasis on domesticity, middle-class women participated in public issues too.”(Lynn,653-654)So,there are a great many critics appears during this period,which recorded this great time and save a precious date for us.Following the great changes, the whole society provide a new worldview to the people.People have set up the competition sense and a lot of literary works reflect this reality.In Europe, as the development of science and technology, it has passed through a “dark period”. Especially in the technology, it once lagged far behind the western. But strictly speaking, the “dark period” is mainly in the medieval ages in prophase and metaphase. Christianity in its formation after one thousand years, a certain extent, destroyed the ancient Greek tradition of science, form the serious shackles of scientific development. At the end of the West Rome Empire, Christianity the state religion gradually established, and the early persecution of Christians, Christianity began to ban, persecuting other religions. In 390 ad, the emperor Theo Doss in Christianity as the state religion, burns Greek temple; Bishop de Ago DOS burns three hundred thousand Greek manuscripts. In 529 ad, Rome Empire Emperor Justinian seizes all the Greek schools including Plat on college. Science in the theocracy and the secular regime of oppression, are gradually into the theology of the slaves. After eleventh Century, with the Europeans have
