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

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om their evil way, then he is king, not subject to the judgmentof any man (Fig. 231 and 232) ; but if he be an adulterer, a homicide,an iniquitous person, a ravisher, then he must be judged, in secret or inpublic, by the bishops, who are Gods representatives. It is necessary tobear well in mind these ideas, inculcated in the Middle Ages, if we wouldunderstand the important functions of the secular clergy. At this early period of society, civilisation was, beyond all doubt, inthe hands of the ecclesiastics. Public education, which the Church hadestablished, and which was given in one or several episcopal schoolsin each diocese, under the direction of the archdeacon, was subject,like judicial proceedings, to hierarchical regulations. Although the bishop p P 290 was free to extend or to limit certain branches of instruction, all the clerksadmitted to follow the courses of these schools had to go through the seriesof studies prescribed and specified in the capitulars of Charlemagne. Thus,
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Fig. 231.—Consecration of Philip Augustus at Eheims,*November 1st, 1179, by his uncle, William,Archbishop of Rheims.—Manuscript 9232 of the Fourteenth Century, Burgundian Library,Brussels. at Metz and Soissons, for instance, the school of singing was an imperialinstitution, and the bishop, no matter what authority he might have inother matters, had no power to suppress it. The same was the case with THE SECULAR CLERGY. 291

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