Capitolo 55
the philosophical life and common of the world. In moral behavior, while the
Clergy English could not be contained guilty of serious breakups of the
ethical and general code, they was away from to come above to the special one
standard that the canon law imposed on the clergy, and what the
monastic reform was making the inflexible law of the time. You gotten married
priests abounded; there it was said to also marry himself/herself/themselves bishops. Simony was
not infrequent. It was probable that every ecclesiastical of line tall pits a
pluralist, holding together diocese and abbacies as Stigand that
kept with the record the diocese of Winchester and a lot of abbeys. That
such man as Stigand, holding every ecclesiastical office that he was able
succeeds in holding, while stripping convents of their land endowments without
more correct than the baron later him, recognition legally refused by every
chosen pope, and unworthy thought to crown a king, or also in more cases
to consecrate a bishop, should hold his/her place from the so many years as
undisputed primate in everybody but the most important functions, is the evidence
enough bottom which the Church English had not been brought the yet
the influence of the great religious reform of the eleventh century.
This was the principal defect of England of that time--a defect on everybody
sides of his/her life that it made up for to the Conquest. It was an isolated earth.
It was standing in danger to become a Scandinavian earth, not in blood only,
or in the absorption in a Scandinavian and actual empire, but in withdrawal from
the true world, and in that slow, almost reluctant, the civilization that
it was as amended possibly a necessity for Scandinavia, but that it would have
returned for England a fall from taller levels. It was the mission of
the Norman Conquest--if we can speak of a mission for great historian
events--to deliver England from this danger, and to bring her/it the
full tide of the asset and the progressive life of Christianity.
It was more than three years after the crowning of first William the