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... middle ages , was comprehensible then as it would not have been in the Norman monasticism of the eleventh century . A single monastic body , small in numbers but significant in the quality of its members , escaped almost all the ills ...
... middle ages , was comprehensible then as it would not have been in the Norman monasticism of the eleventh century . A single monastic body , small in numbers but significant in the quality of its members , escaped almost all the ills ...
Page 170
... middle ages , and by the sense that an imitation of medieval achievements and institutions was the best way of combating the ills of the past century . The new life sprang mainly from three sources , in France , in Italy , and in ...
... middle ages , and by the sense that an imitation of medieval achievements and institutions was the best way of combating the ills of the past century . The new life sprang mainly from three sources , in France , in Italy , and in ...
Page 182
... middle ages , quite apart from the aberrations of individuals and the collapses of decadence , there were in every age , and widely in some ages , lapses of the monastic life down the scale to canonical or even to merely clerical life ...
... middle ages , quite apart from the aberrations of individuals and the collapses of decadence , there were in every age , and widely in some ages , lapses of the monastic life down the scale to canonical or even to merely clerical life ...
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