Monks and nuns provided food and shelter for travelers. Priests recorded births, married people, and performed burial services. The church played a role in politics. Church officials, kings, and nobles governed western Europe.
One stands in front of a Rostrum and one stands upon the Rostra. ... During the late Republic the rostra was used as a place to display the heads of defeated political enemies. Gaius Marius and consul Lucius Cornelius Cinna captured Rome in 87 BC and placed the head of the defeated consul, Gnaeus Octavius, on the Rostra.
