In the Middle Ages the feudal system was developed in Europe. The king was mainly military chief and had the power to distribute the ground conquered by his troops between the dukes. Those gave it to the knights. The money hardly existed. There was not basic economic to raise taxes in significant quantities.

As the German ones and the Celts had small experience in the writing, science and arts, Europe took several centuries to regain the knowledge of the culture gréco-Roman. This work was carried out by the monks in the convents, which could read and write. The Christian religion had not had time to extend north of the Alps before the invasion from the German ones. They was itinerant monks coming from Ireland which preached the Gospel with in Switzerland between 600 and 700. One of these monks, Gallus, remained close to St Gall (Swiss Eastern) in the first part of the 7th century. In 820 a monastery influence was over there founded. The monasteries also contributed largely to agricultural progress (for example culture of the fruits) and of the business (for example of the contracts of business of model worked out by the monks of St Gall into 888).

Quotation “History of Switzerland” © Markus Jud, Lucerne