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Emperor Constantine the Great, known for his hallucination-induced battlefield conversion to Christianity, made religious persecution illegal throughout the Roman Empire. This allowed Christianity to flourish and eventually become the dominant religion of Western Europe.
Because of Constantine, the Catholic Church established itself throughout the Roman world, and stayed there after the Empire fell.
Medieval society was completely dominated by the church: cathedrals popped up everywhere, monasteries maintained and recorded history and scientific knowledge, and the Pope had as much influence of most kings.
In short, Constantine influenced medieval society by handing the future over to the Christians.
Although Emperor Constantine does not seem to have entirely understood Christianity, he did admire its internal discipline and hierarchical structure, seeing it as a potential unifying force for the empire.
Constantine gave state patronage to the Christian Church of the bishops, while suppressing Gnostic Christianity and, less successfully, Donatism and Arianism. He set in train the process that saw Christianity become the official religion of the Roman empire towards the end of the fourth century, and the religion of the majority of the population soon afterwards.
With the emphasis on what Constantine did for the Christian Church, it is often overlooked that he also influenced the pagan temples. He began the persecution of the pagan temples and allowed the Christian clergy to plunder them for the state treasury. Again, this created a culture in which the Christian Church would soon plunder the temples for its own enrichment. Although the persecution under Constantine was necessarily mild, since Christians formed only a small proportion of the population of the empire, his sons and successors soon added to the torment of the pagans, until persecution reached the wholly unprecedented levels under Emperor Theodosius.
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