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Description: Identifier: gri_33125008050011 (find matches) Title: Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance Year: 1870 (1870s) Authors: Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 Subjects: Middle Ages Civilization, Medieval Civilization, Renaissance Costume Military art and science Christian life Publisher: London : Bickers & Son Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: al domain of the diocesan chapter. When the Crusades brought about the concord, or rather the calm, ofwhich the Church had so long been deprived, its progress became moreregular, more marked, and more easy; it also suffered less from the encroach-ment of laymen upon its rights and privileges (Fig. 233), but the enormousexpenses of these distant expeditions had ruined it. There was not, indeed,a single diocese where the property was not loaded with mortgages, norwhere the services were not crippled by the reduction of the diocesanrevenues. This penury, coupled with the absence of a great number of the THE SECULAR CLERGY. 2Q3 most esteemed ecclesiastics, who had taken up the cross, left many importantchurches almost without resources or guidance; hence arose a generalrelaxation of morals on the part of the clerks, whose misconduct was in somecases so flagrant that it became necessary to expel them from the religioushouses and parishes which had been committed to their charge. The abuses Text Appearing After Image: Fig. 233.—Treaty of Arras, concluded in 1191, by the interposition of William of Champagne,Archbishop of Eheims, between Baldwin V., Count of Hainault, and Matilda of Portugal,Widow of Philip, Count of Flanders.—Miniature from the Chroniques de Hainaut(Fifteenth Century), Burgundian Library, Brussels. of authority, the uncertainty in point of faith, and the Vaudois heresy, whichshot through Western Europe like a poisoned barb, gave rise to frequentdissensions amongst the faithful, the disputes being carried on even amongstmembers of the same family, whilst in many localities the people, attractedby a form of worship where the chanting and the prayers were recited in thevulgar tongue, deserted their parish church for the heretic priest; this was 294 THE SECULAR CLERGY. the origin of an infinity of disturbances and tumults in the large towns,especially in those governed by a municipality. And yet the bishops had contributed in a material degree to theestablishment of the communes ; Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
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