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... clergy were allowed to marry , and it seems that in general their religion was purer and simpler than the Roman . The Roman bishops , who were fighting for their own supremacy , were both more worldly and more practical than the ...
... clergy were allowed to marry , and it seems that in general their religion was purer and simpler than the Roman . The Roman bishops , who were fighting for their own supremacy , were both more worldly and more practical than the ...
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... clergy was enforced - yet even then the best men in the Church thought it an unholy thing for a priest to have a wife . The monk and the nun were everywhere considered the highest types of holiness . The Christianity , then , which ...
... clergy was enforced - yet even then the best men in the Church thought it an unholy thing for a priest to have a wife . The monk and the nun were everywhere considered the highest types of holiness . The Christianity , then , which ...
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... clergy , being the only educated class , the only men acquainted with the law and organisation of Rome , should become the councillors and ministers of the kings . The bishops and abbots took their seats with the nobles at the great ...
... clergy , being the only educated class , the only men acquainted with the law and organisation of Rome , should become the councillors and ministers of the kings . The bishops and abbots took their seats with the nobles at the great ...
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... clergy to swell their own revenues , and became , as time went on , a fruitful source of corruption to the Church . The unity of the English Church under the headship of Rome , accomplished by the struggles of Wilfrith and the labours ...
... clergy to swell their own revenues , and became , as time went on , a fruitful source of corruption to the Church . The unity of the English Church under the headship of Rome , accomplished by the struggles of Wilfrith and the labours ...
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... clergy , a sort of priests ' guide , called the ' Pastorale , ' or Shepherd's Book , which he thought would help them to guide their flocks . But the book from which we learn the most of Alfred's own mind is his translation of the ...
... clergy , a sort of priests ' guide , called the ' Pastorale , ' or Shepherd's Book , which he thought would help them to guide their flocks . But the book from which we learn the most of Alfred's own mind is his translation of the ...
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