Capitolo 53
as the continental cleric concerned them, and as indeed them you/he/she was.
During the past century a great movement of reform, emanating from the
convent of Cluny, had transformed the Catholic world, but in this
England had but the small part. Starting as a monastic reform it,
you/he/she had succeeded as soon as in to bring the whole Church under monastic control.
Of now from now on the asceticism of the monk, his/her ideals in religion and
you adore, his/her type of thought and learning, it had to be those of the
Official church, from the papal throne to the parsonage of country. It
it was for that age a true reform. The influence combined of the two
great temptations to that the cleric of this period of the Middle one
Age was exposed--the so easy ignorance to produce to, so very hard to overcome,
and ownership, bringing with him classification and it motorizes and opening the way to
the ambition for itself or the posterity of one--it was so great that a rule of
severe asceticism, strengthened by a powerful organization with terrible
sanctions and an ideal controlling of the personal devotion, were able alone
overcome him/it. The monastic reform had furnished these conditions,
although against severe conflicts be fights out still before they is able
is done for prevailing in every part of western Europe. Just before the
appointment of Stigand in the archbishop's palace of Canterbury, this new
ideas had gotten possession of the papal throne in the person of Leo
IX, and with them other ideas that were become from nearby and almost
necessarily in partnership with them, of the severe concentration under the
pope, of a theocratic the papal supremacy, on-line certainly with the
history of the Church, but it held same-more knowingly and logically
worked out that never before.
In this great movement England had not had permanent action. You cut away from
I contact easy with the tides of continental thought, not only from the
you irrigate but from the lack of some common affairs and the natural incentives to