Medieval architecture; its origins and development : with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1909)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New York : Baker and Taylor Co. · leaf 527
rrupt, more ignorant; neverhad the Christian religion been so openly the object of scorn andderision. The papacy had lost its moral force as well as itstemporal power in the disorders of the Schism; the clergyobeyed no discipline, canonical or moral; monk and priestvied with each other in… … III. 270. — Eglise de la Couture, Bernay. Portal DECAY OF THE CHURCH lined pocket-book; once invested, abbot and bishop neglectedtheir spiritual duties, and thought only of plunder. Simultaneously with the wealth of the nation, the wealthof the Church had been singularly diminished, so that the…
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