WHAT HAPPENNED IN THE MIDDLE AGE ?
Middle age was a dark period to villages,womens for a while. They did all works of kings in agriculture such as planting,harvesting. You can say that they were come to live just for their king's assignments. They could not ignore rules of king and warriors of period. They had to do it. At the same time,womens also did those occupations in addition their housework and gathering food.
Apart from villages and womens,there were some public groups like bishop,archbishop,nun,warrior. All of those people controlled by king. They had do to whatever king say. There was a good event in this times,it is invention of printing press.
After the printing press,people had some knowledges like freedom,independent life,situation of other countries. This was not a good new to kings. Because they were lose their labour. They were not plant farms,fight others and so on. Also churchs were lose reputation. In there,things which said to public is to buy fields of paradise. People learned that this is not a right promise through printing press,namely books.
As people had get knowledge in this times continuously,kings and churchs lost prestige and beginning of Renaissance is the end of medieval period.