First the 'Dark Ages' who never existed. It is an invention from 1800 to dismantle our culture. During the "dark ages" europe invented Glasses, the mechanical Clock, a wide variaty of weapon technologies and the Church invented the University. There was no dark age. One Part of the western civilisation was completely destroyed and whiped out – Damascus, Alexandria, Jerusalem, the whole north african culture. By armed raiders who enslaved all and sold them.

Secondly, the fight between Popes and the Kings in the Middle Ages was against letting a King beeing also a religious Ruler. Kibg Henry in Britain demolished the catholic Church, robbed everything and then: He declared himself the highest person in the new Anglikan Church. Henry has ENDED the seperation between Church and State. He was the highpriest of the Church AND the King.

Also during the reformation, the Kings started to be the highest ranking person in their Religion, replacing the Pope with themself.

I now angloculture does not look at this in this way, but the Queen in England is Queen of the Commonwelth AND the highest Priestess of the Anglikan Church. State & Religion in one hand.