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 414
t armies of Crusaders to the East, THE RELIGIOUS ORDERS. 329 but he adhered to his character of monk and apostle, by devoting his energiesto combating the Oriental heretics by verbal arguments; to preventingschisms; to appeasing the scholastic quarrels, in which the famous Abelardwas one of the… … Fig. 256.—A Beguin.—From an Engraving in the Histoire de lOrigine des Beguines Beiges, by Hallman. won him all hearts. The death of the illustrious abbot of Clairvaux, in 1153,was a terrible blow to the Church, and an irreparable loss for monastic insti-tutions ; for there was no one to take his…
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