The Age of the Reformation

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An Italian in London noticed in 1557 that allgentlemen without other title insisted on being called "mister. " [Sidenote: Professions] One sign of the break-up of the old medieval castes was the newclassification of men by calling, or profession. It is true that twoof the professions, the {493} higher offices in army and church, becameapanages of the nobility, and the other liberal vocations were almostas completely monopolized by the children of the moneyed middle class;nevertheless it is sign...ificant that there were new roads by which menmight rise. No class has profited more by the evolution of ideas thanhas the intelligentsia. From a subordinate, semi-menial position, lawyers, physicians, educators and journalists, not to mention artistsand writers, have become the leading, almost the ruling, body of ourwestern democracies.
[Sidenote: Clergy] Half way between a medieval estate and a modern calling stood theclergy. In Catholic countries they remained very numerous; there were136 episcopal or archiepiscopal sees in France; there were 40, 000parish priests, with an equal number of secular clergy in subordinatepositions, 24, 000 canons, 34, 000 friars, 2500 Jesuits (in 1600), 12, 000monks and 80, 000 nuns.


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