Medieval panorama : the English scene from conquest to Reformation / by G.G. Coulton.

  • George Gordon Coulton
Date:
1947
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    CHAPTER III (pp. 34—44) continued fornicators and publicans, who enjoy them in secular fashion,.. .If, among these, I find deacons, as they are called, who from their boyhood onward have been always in fornication and adultery, leading their lives continually in all un¬ cleanness, who have come to the diaconate by that token and who now, within thf diaconate, keep in dieir bed four or five concubines or more, yet neither blush nor fear to call themselves deacons and to read the Gospel [at Mass], and who, coming thus in such unchastity to the order of priesthood, persisting in the same sins and adding sin to sin, perform the priestly office and claim the power of interceding for the people, and offering the holy oblations; and in these latest days (what is worse) by the same token they rise from step to step and are ordained and created bishops—if (I say) I find such men among them, I beseech [your Holiness] that I may have your precept and your written authority in judgment upon such things, that the sinners may be convinced and rebuked by your Apostolic answer. Moreover, bishops are found among them who, though they say that they are no fornicators or adulterers, are yet drunken and quarrel¬ some, or hunters, and men who fight under arms in battle, and shed men’s blood with their own hands, whether of heathens or of Christians,” (6) See Addis and Arnold, Catholic Dictionary (10th ed. revised), 554, and Hefele, Beitrage. I have summed up the discussion on this subject on pp. 25 ff. of the 20th of my Medieval Studies (6d.). (7) P.L. LXXXIX. 526. (8) Ibid. 751. (9) Ibid. 951. (10) Ibid. 946. (11) Ibid. 768. (12) Register, Bk 11, letter 51; this country was probably Dalmatia. CHAPTER IV (pp. 45-56) (1) Pollock and Maitland, Hist. Eng. Law (2nd ed.), 1. 67. (2) Camb. Med. Hist. 11. 647. (3) Lavisse and Rambaud, Hist. Generale, 11. 48. (4) H. Pirenne, Econom. and Soc. Hist, of Med. Europe, 202. CHAPTER V (pp. 57-67) (1) De Gestis Regum (R.S.), 11. 304. (2) Stubbs, Select Charters (1890), 201 (Bk x, ch. 10). (3) Ed. Lumby (R.S.), 11. 165, CHAPTER VI (pp. 68-79) (1) Documents (ed. H. Philpott, 1861), 2. (2) Norfolk Archaeology, xx. 179; History Teachers* Miscellany, 1. 165. (3) Wilkins, Concilia, 1. 287. CHAPTER VII (pp. 80-91) (1) Froissart (Globe ed.), 251. (2) Babees Book (E.E.T.S.), introd. xlvi. (3) W. J. Ashley, Economic History, vol. 1, pt ii, 333. (4) Miracles of K. Hen. VI (ed. R. A. Knox and Shane Leslie, 1923), 131. (5) Eynsham Cartulary (Oxford Hist. Soc.), 11. introd. xx. (6) Piers Plowman, B, Prol. 103; 11. 93, 95; VI. 107; C, vi. 9. (7) First Sermon before Ed. VI. (8) This has been conclusively proved by Mr Geoffrey Baskerville, in his English Monks and the Suppression of the Monasteries (Cape, 1937), which for the first time utilizes the vast mass of material among the public records. (9) Predigten (ed. F. Pfeiffer), 1. 478.