Capitolo 65
and the tallest power in the Church as comparative with the State, but there it was able
is not any practical realization of these theories in some Norman earth so long
as the Conqueror lived. In any part of Europe the sovereign had you/he/she practiced
a greater or more direct power on the Church that in Normandy. Everybody
departments of his/her life were subject to its control, if there was reason
to practice him/it. This had been true for so long once that the Church was
gotten used to the situation and it accepted him without complaint. This power
William didn't have any intention to produce. He proposed to practice him/it in
England as him had in Normandy,[6] and, also in this age of fierce conflict
with his great temporal competitor, the emperor, the papacy brusquely did anybody
problem drawn with him on these points. There could be no question of the
headship of the world in his/her case, and on the moral and vital point he was also
almost in the harmony with the Church to make an easy problem. On the importance
to respect the monastic rule, the bachelorhood of the clergy and the purchase
of ecclesiastical office, he agreed in theory with the disciples of
Cluny. [7] but, if he didn't sell a diocese, he was determined that
the bishop should be his/her men; he was standing ready to increase the power and
the independence of the Church, but always as an organ of the State as a part
of the car through which the government was continued.
It is completely inside the limits of possibility that, in his/her negotiations
with Rome in front of his/her invasion of England, William has been able to give the pope
to understand, in of the indefinite and informal way that if he won the
kingdom, he would contain him/it of St. Pietro. In to accept the they consecrated
flag that the pope sent him, he could not succeed really to know that him
you/he/she would be understood for being giving credit to a feudal dependence. When the
however, kingdom was defeated he was found not prepared to perform such