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weak, and a lot of to the mercy of the laity that invaded and it contaminated
them. Abbots, as bishops were soldiers among that they often lived the
wall up with their wives and children, their hawks, their hunting dog and them
man-to-arm; and you/he/she has been said that, in France, Corbie and Fleury
alone it always held anything of their first discipline.
Only in the first years of the darkest century of the Centuries Averages, when
the decentralization culminated, and imagination started to earn his fuller
intensity, made the period of the monastic consolidation opens with the
foundation of Cluny. In 910 William of the sharp tug of Aquitaine a rental [the Footnote:
Bruel, the des of _Recueil Chartes de the Abbaye de Cluny_, me 124.] what, this way
far as possible, provided that for the complete independence of his new
stock companies. There was not visit of episcopal and any interference with
the abbot's election. The monks had directly put under the
protection of the pope that their was done soles superior. John XI
confirmed this rental by his/her bull of 932, and authorized the affiliation
of all the converts that desired to divide in the reform. [The footnote: _Bull.
Clun._ p. 2, with the. 1. Also Luchaire, _Manuel des Institutions Francaises_,
93, 95 where the authorities are picked.]
The growth of Cluny was marvellous; from the twelfth century two thousand
houses respected its rule, and its wealth was so great, and its buildings this way
enormous, that in 1245 IVs Innocenti, the emperor Baldwin and Saint that Luigi is
all lodged together with the inside of his/her walls, and with them the whole companion
trains of prelates and nobles with their servants.
In the eleventh century any other strength of equal energy existed. The monks
it was the most opulent, the ablest, and the best society organized in
Europe and their effect on humanity it was proportionate to their strength.
They intuitively sought the autocratic power, and during the centuries when
nature favored them, they passed from triumph to triumph. Them before