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Title: A short history of England and the British Empire
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Larson, Laurence Marcellus, 1868-1938
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Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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church as arch-bishop of Canterbury, William placed an Italian monk, thelearned Lanfranc, who had earlier served as abbotof the important Norman monastery of Bee.Lanfranc was a man after the kings own heart, a lawyer anda statesman rather than an ecclesiastic, a churchman whoselegal training had inclined him to place emphasis on the secularrather than on the ecclesiastical side of government. Though Lanfranc believed in the kings authority over thechurch, the result of the new regime was to reduce this authorityand to bring the English church into closer dependence uponRome. This was in part due to a promise made to the Papacyin 1066, when William was asking the papal blessing on hisproposed expedition against a Christian king; but in greaterpart it was the outcome of a great reforming movement thatwas sweeping across Europe in the eleventh century. 54. The Reform Movement of the Tenth and EleventhCenturies. During the Saxon period the English church, REFORM MOVEMENT IN THE CHURCH 63
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64 ENGLAND UNDER NORMAN RULE though it loyally recognized the headship of the Roman see,The freedom enjoyed large freedom in its internal government,of the Anglo- Three reasons may be assigned for this: EnglandSaxon church. wag £ar distant from t^e capital of Christendom;in the tenth and eleventh centuries the papacy was far too busywith its interests in Italy to give much attention to the distantchurches; and until the middle of the eleventh century noTheiegatine efficient machinery had been devised for the super-system, vision of churches beyond the Alps. But in thedays of William I a system of papal envoys called legateswas being developed, and a larger conception of the termCatholic came to hold sway at Rome, largely through theactivities of Williams mighty contemporary, theTuscan monk Hildebrand, later Pope Gregory VII.Serious minded men had long been grieved to see the world-liness and corruption that seemed to permeate the church andbelieved that the cause of the evil lay in a

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