The History of the Christian Church During the Middle Ages With a Summary of the
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Ii. P. 417. 3 The mark of religious profession by a peculiar dress was (at least in most cases) not an original distinction, but arose from the continued use of what was at first the common dress, after it had become obsolete in Cent. XL THEIR ALLIANCE WITH THE PAPACY. 331 conventual lands or served the monastery in various lorms of traffic, the ancient rule of common labour was broken, by devolving what we now call menial offices and the management of secular business on lay brethren {conversi...). 1 § 2. The spirit of independence, which was beginning to stir in the towns, had its counterpart in the monastic societies which, thus complete in themselves and their own resources, elected their own abbots; and these aspired to independence of episcopal control, by means of royal charters, and still more of papal privileges. 2 For this desire for independence cooperated with the natural dis- position of devotees to carry Catholic principles to an extreme, and to exalt the unity of the Church in its chief Bishop, in making the monks the chief and constant supporters of the authority of the Pope.
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