Cathedrals and cloisters of the Isle de France : including Bourges, Troyes, Reims and Rouen (1910)
Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 104
atecclesiastics were Louis VIII and his successor,Louis IX. Notwithstanding his deep respect forthe Church, notwithstanding his saintly and holycharacter, the later Louis kept the civil power of theEpiscopate in submission to the Crown. After he hadrepressed, in 1233, the formidable sedition of… … THE BISHOPS CLOISTER. —LAON. 73 The Bishop 75 This act was significant and betokened the beginningof the wane of the poHtical autocracy of Ecclesiasticism. The Cathedral-building age was the apogee of epis-copal greatness, the days when the mailed hand of theBishop was almost as potent as his…
Cathedrals -- France · France -- Description and travel
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