A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard
Capitolo 35
Mortmain Action that prohibited the to give of earth to convents or
other stock companies without the real license.
Increasing on so the national control the church in England, him
made the more national same church. You/he/she is sometimes implicated that the
church was equally national in every Century Averages; but it is
difficult to speak there of a national church in front of it was a nation, or
to see that there was anything really English in a church dominated from
Lanfranc or Anselm, when there was not an English on the bishops'
bench, when the enormous majority of English is legally incapable as
villeins of also orders of taking in the church, and when the vernacular
language had been outcast from its services. But with the nation English
grown a church English; Grosseteste reported the dominion of it estranges
in the church, while the de of Simon Montfort reported him/it in the state. It
however it was from secular authority, that the church English was
made different to the foreign countries from the church. It was the barons and not the
bishops that are withstood the assimilation of the canon English Roman
law, and it was Edward not the Archbishops Peckham and Winchilsey and I,
who challenged Pope Boniface VIII. Archbishops, put still indeed them
the fidelity to the pope above of that al their king.
The same sense of national and insular solidarity to which it conducted Edward
you also challenge the papacy it inhaled his/her efforts to conquer Wales and
Scotland. Indeed it was the refusal of the church to pay taxes in the,
crisis of the Scottish war that the dispute has provoked with Boniface.
But, while Edward was successful in Wales, he met in Scotland a
national spirit that otherwise grows together not from that on that Edward
he counted in England. Neither it was sufficiently patriotism English
developed to counterattack the sectorial feelings of which you/they took advantage
the king's embarrassments. The necessity of the king was its subjects'
opportunity, and the Confirmation of Rentals extorted from him in 1297