<span>Theodora wife of Justinian spoke up for women and gave them more rights, at the time women had no say in political views, and mostly spent the mornings at the gardens. </span>
One of the immediate results of the fall of the Roman Empire in the West was that the area soon became home to a great deal of lawlessness, since the Roman armies were no longer there to safeguard.
In Erasmus' The Praise of Folly, he criticized the Catholic Church and officials for focusing on money and power instead of the spiritual needs of individuals.
