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By Hugh M. Thomas

ISBN-10: 0198702566

ISBN-13: 9780198702566

The secular clergy - monks and different clerics outdoors of monastic orders - have been one of the such a lot influential and robust teams in eu society through the important center a while. The secular clergy bought their identify from the Latin note for international, saeculum, and secular clerics stored the Church operating on this planet past the cloister wall, with accountability for the majority of pastoral care and ecclesiastical management. This gave them huge, immense religious
influence, even if they have been thought of too worldly through many modern moralists - making an attempt, for example, to oppose the removing of clerical marriage and concubinage.

Although their worldliness created many tensions, it additionally gave the secular clergy a lot worldly impression. Contemporaries handled elite secular clerics as comparable to knights, and a few have been as prosperous as minor barons. Secular clerics had an incredible function within the upward push of royal forms, one of many key historic advancements of the interval. They have been instrumental to the highbrow and cultural flowering of the 12th century, the increase of the colleges, the construction of the ebook alternate, and the
invention of universities. They played track, produced literature in a number of genres and languages, and patronized paintings and structure. certainly, this quantity argues that they contributed greater than the other crew to the Twelfth-Century Renaissance. but the secular clergy as a gaggle have received
almost no recognition from students, not like clergymen, nuns, or secular nobles. within the Secular Clergy in England, 1066-1216, Hugh Thomas goals to right this deficiency via a big examine of the secular clergy lower than the extent of bishop in England from 1066 to 1216.

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