Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 401
al domains and rights,impoverished the monastic orders, whose lands remained untilled for want ofhands, and their schoolrooms often empty for want of teachers and scholars.While the Normans burnt and pillaged the monasteries, fortified though 316 THE RELIGIOUS ORDERS. many of them were, in the… … Fig. 245.—Foundation of the secular abbeys of Mom, Maubeuge, and Nivelles. The canonessesmeeting at Nivelles, where Walcand, Bishop of Liege (810 to 832 or 836), promises to givethem a code of rules.—From the Chroniques de Hainaut, Manuscript of the FifteenthCentury, in the Burgundian Library,…
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