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I don't think anything was questioned back then. Everyone just accepted it as it was, either because they were illiterate and uneducated or because they feared the almighty church that was out to get anyone who was going against it's teachings. Dark ages, indeed.
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Let's simply say they had more... 'pressing' troubles to overcome.
And by that I mean: The end of the world, famine, wars, epidemies, poverty, slavery etc. etc.
They had really little time to question themselves from where the sovereignty came from ^^'
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Yes, but we had those things even in the Enlightment era. Heck, we even have these things in the modern era. The only two world wars happened in the last century, we've had several deathly epidemics just in the past two decades, last of which is ebola. Poverty and famine is still a major problem in a lot of countries. The only improvement is slavery and even that is not entirely eradicated. There have been cases of slavery in Europe in the 21st century and other western countries. I think it has more to do with education than anything else. Majority of the population was illiterate and couldn't expand their knowledge. On top of that, church was extremely powerful which slowed down the pace of innovation and evolution of thought and science. Any research that gave birth to ideas that were against the religious dogma were frowned upon and people would be prosecuted because of it.

We have monarchies even today, despite a huge step forward in evolution of critical thought, like democracy. I find it ironic that some of the most democratic and prosperous countries in the world are in fact monarchies- Sweden, UK and Belgium for example :D