Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1909)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New York, The Baker and Taylor Company · leaf 388
precisely thismoment. Meanwhile corruption was progressing apace within theChurch. By the opening of the XIV century all the effects ofthe XII century reform had disappeared, and the regular andsecular clergy had alike fallen into decadence. The accumula-tion of benefices, immorality, and simony… … III. 222. — Fa9ade of Laou ANAGNI the sacraments. Excommunications were so mucli abusedthat the power of the keys was openly ridiculed. Scandalousand blasphemous charges were constantly brought againstthe Church and its ministers. Throughout the length andbreadth of France Sunday was no longer…
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