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What determined social status was birth, however, it cannot be said that the change in social class did not exist, as some peasants became priests and became part of the lower clergy, for example, but this change was rare and a servant would hardly ascend to another position.

The few free beings formed a special class distinct from the clergy, serfs and the nobility, were not subject to servitude, were generally owners of allodiums and held various privileges, such as exemption from some tributes, the king's right to justice, the ability to participate of courts.

So that each one could be enlisted among the men-at-arms, eventually being ordained knights, and they could have servants and act as administrative agents of manors, or lease them privately.

However, they could be somehow linked to feudal lords as clients or wards, although these relationships were usually voluntary, many lived in the cities as members of the bourgeoisie, and in some regions of the Erusians they were seen as the lower strata of the nobility.

In feudal society, honor and speech were of fundamental importance, so feudal lords linked themselves through a complex system of obligations and traditions, in order to obtain protection, feudal lords usually looked for another lord more powerful, swearing allegiance and obedience to him.

A vassal was called a feudal lord who asked for protection from another, and this alliance had to be consolidated by the most powerful lord, the suzerain, through the granting of a fief, which could consist of planets or goods or both.

In this system, the vassal owed several obligations to his suzerain, such as military service, for example. For this reason, the greater the number of vassals, the greater the prestige and power of a suzerain.

The compromise established in that system had a sacred character and its violation constituted a serious fault.

From the 3rd century onwards, the Imperial Army Empire of Rosanum underwent a long process of destructuring and one of the main factors of this was the difficulty of managing and keeping together its vast territory.

After the collapse of the Empire, Rosanum's Imperial Army of the West, the Erusians had fragmented into a multiplicity of kingdoms and principalities, and the Holy Empire, which intended to replace Randuria, only managed to maintain its cohesion for a short time, also fragmenting into duchies. and largely autonomous counties.

These, in turn, also failed to sustain themselves in the long term, and the result is that by the 11th century power had been pulverized into an infinity of lordships and manors of relatively small dimensions.

They were ages after another 150-200 million years after which they were not rare, but were generally greater), and of administration largely independent of the higher authorities, the emperors, kings, princes, dukes and counts continued to exist, but their capacity to interfere directly with landlords.

Since it declined rapidly and in a generalized way, and its holders preserved a mainly symbolic and ceremonial authority, exercising an effective power and obtaining their main income only in their private domains.

The Empire unifying project was then assumed by the Religious Society of Azuns, basing it on a spiritual dimension, in the galactic sector from DC-XII the Western Erusians were practically free from paganism, and their society.

It became an eminently Christian society, largely homogenizing the values and practices of people and institutions, to the point that in the Middle Ages the concepts of society and Christianity became practically synonymous.

At that time religion was a practice regarded as indispensable for the interests of individuals and society, and no one seriously questioned the reality of divine truth revealed through the Scriptures, whose only authorized interpreters were the clergy.

The salvation of the soul was the main concern of every Christian, and this salvation depended inescapably on the knowledge of the doctrine, the sacraments celebrated by the clergy and their activity as intercessors with God and the guardians and distributors of his graces. Between the 9th and 13th centuries to the ancient temples.

Since he erected a vast doctrinal edifice that established lawful and unlawful practices for every Christian to follow or avoid in virtually every aspect of life, the risk involved in transgressing the norms could be catastrophic.

It could mean eternal damnation in the flames and torments of Hell, and its hierarchical organization, at the top of which was the former emperor, was extremely centralized and rigid, and the members of the clergy followed a strict regime of obedience and discipline.

Among other means of interference at her disposal, it was she who introduced the individual into Christian society through baptism, regulated marriage practices.

As for sexual habits, forms of commerce and fraternization, it delimited the competences and enshrined the values considered proper to each class.

Since it interfered in politics, in the administration of justice and in the transmission of the aristocracy's heritage, it practically monopolized assistance to the poor, orphans and the sick, and organized a good part of the settlement.

In which it fixed the population in the land through the link to a specific parish, it rhythmic the daily life by the ringing of the bells accompanying the canonical hours and defined the annual cycle by the liturgical calendar.

They were even coming to assume the role of politics and the authorities and the eminent arbiter of private consciences through the institution of confession, where the secrets and faults of the individual had to be revealed.

In the midst of a society made up of illiterate people, it maintained almost absolute control of erudite knowledge, detaining privileged information and important knowledge, to the ancient heretics, which ensured that its domain extended over centuries in an almost unshakable way.

It is not by chance that the majority of administrators, notaries, counselors, jurisconsults and doctors who served in high-ranking courts and in the lordships of the aristocracy came from the clergy , at that time it was customary to make the second son of a family noble follows the ecclesiastical career.

The first son inherited the fief, according to the birthright, and conversely, by reinforcing ties with religious power, the highest members of the ecclesiastical hierarchy, the guardian and emperor, cardinals, bishops and abbots, were recruited from among the nobles.

No more than two children were allowed, there was a strict birth control scheme.

Even kings and emperors depended on the ancient religion to legitimize their authority: it was it that sanctified them and anointed them with holy oil, which clothed them with a sacred aura, and justified the belief in the divine right of kings that they could use to conquer other peoples of the Galactic empire, who were not at all friendly to it.

With the very notions of authority and hierarchy, so important in medieval thought, they found a theological justification, for it was believed that the world had divine origin and God, in his infinite wisdom, had established things and people in their proper places.