History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne
The book History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne was written by author Lecky, William Edward Hartpole, 1838-1903 Here you can read free online of History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne a good or bad book?
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p. 296. ample evidence of thes- positioiii ■ Ibid. p. 322. in Lea. See especially pp. ^38 » Ibid. p. 349. 141. 153, 165. 260. 344. 332 HISTORY OF EUROPEAN MORALS. mairiage of priests, and especially their intercourse with wives whom they had married previous to their ordination. Several Councils issued their anathemas against priests 'who had improper relations with their wives;' and rules were made that priests should always sleep in the presence of a subordinate clerk ; and that they should o...nly meet their w: -res in the open air and before at least two witnesses. Men w')re, however, by no means unanimous in their way of regarding this matter. Synesius, when elected to a bishopric^ at first declined, boldly alleging as one of his reasons, that he had a wife whom he loved dearly, and who, he hoped, would bear him many sons, and that he did not mean to separate from her or visit her secretly as an adulterer.* A Bishop of Laon, at a later date, who was married to a niece of St. R6my, and who remained with his wife till after he had a son and a daughter, quaintly expressed his penitence by naming them respectively Latro and Yulpecula.^ St.
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