Gerald had attended a chapter at Savigny,and successfully claimed exemption from filial dutyto Furness, which had been to him, as we have seen,so unnatural a parent. But, in 1150, the abbots ofCalder and Furness again renewed their claim, andthis time it was Aldred, abbot of Rieval, who,… … solutely indispensable to any fruitful study of Englishmonastic architecture that we should constantly re-member the vast and wide-spread organization, withthe great St. Bernard for its leading spirit, in whichthose 1200 religious houses were linked and subor-dinated with almost feudal elaboration.…
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