Cathedrals and cloisters of the south of France (1906)
Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London : G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 138
bankers, seems to have thoughtphilosophically, After us, the deluge. Another favourite diplomatic and financial device, whichwas invented by these famous Popes of Avignon, was thesystem of the Commende, which enabled relatives ofnobles and all those whom it was desirable to placate, notalone… … NOTRE-DAM K-DKS-UOMS. A\IC.NON Avignon. 11 3 monasterys welfare. This care was left to a Prior or aSub-prior, a sort of clerical administrator who, crippledin means and in influence, was sometimes unable, sometimesunwilling, to carry out the duties and beneficences of pastages, and who was always…
Cathedrals -- France · France -- Description and travel
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