盎格鲁-撒克逊时期的教会税及其影响

The Church Tax and Its Influence During the Anglo-Saxon Period

起初,盎格鲁人、撒克逊人在宗教上都是异教徒,但在7世纪,所有的盎格鲁-撒克逊国王及其臣属都皈依了基督教。随着基督教文化的兴起,教堂捐等教会税开始见诸盎格鲁-撒克逊法典中。教会税是盎格鲁-撒克逊教会财富的一个重要来源,尽管教会拥有政治权力,在民众中间拥有道德权威,但是,教会税也增加了盎格鲁-撒克逊人的沉重负担,使中世纪早期英格兰的乡村生活更加不稳定。

Both the Anglos and Saxons were pagans in religion at first,but in the 7th century all the Anglo-Saxon kings and their vassals converted to Christianity.With the rise of Christian culture,church taxes such as church-scot began to appear in the Anglo-Saxon law codes.The church tax was an important source of church wealth in the Anglo-Saxon period.Although the Church had political power and moral authority among the people,the church tax increased the heavy burden of the Anglo-Saxons,making rural life in early medieval England more unstable.