Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance / by Paul Lacroix.

  • Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884.
Date:
[between 1870 and 1879?]
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Credit: Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance / by Paul Lacroix. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    but he adhered to his character of monk and apostle, by devoting his energies to combating the Oriental heretics by verbal arguments; to preventing schisms ; to appeasing the scholastic quarrels, in which the famous Abelard was one of the disputants; to aiding with his counsels the popes and the monarchs; and to pouring forth, from diocese to diocese, from council to council, and from synod to synod, that fervid and powerful eloquence which Fig. 256.—A Beguin.—From an Engraving in the “ Histoire de l’Origine des Béguines Belges,”’ 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 place or to continue his work of reformation in the monasteries of the Benédictine order. Amongst the contemporary monks, who were founders or reformers of abbeys, we need only mention the Danish Archbishop Eckel, Felix of Valois, John of Matha, the Englishman Gilbert of Sempringham, the Liége priest Lambert Begh or Lebégue, who created the Beguin convents (Figs. 255 and 256), of which there are so many in the Netherlands, and which were pious WW) oF