-The political and economic system was a feudal system with a hierarchy of land owners at the top and peasants at the bottom.
-The social structure was determined by religion, by the Catholic Church and its configuration of time (a line that goes from birth to paradise).
-The period is marked by illiteracy with very few people being able to read or write. The society retains the marks of orality, of an oral culture (in opposition to a culture tied to the visual and print).
