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Title: Medieval Europe from 395 to 1270
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Bémont, Charles, 1848-1939. (from old catalog) Monod, Gabriel Jacques Jean, 1844-1912, (from old catalog) joint author Sloan, Mary, (from old catalog) tr Adams, George Burton, 1851- (from old catalog) ed
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Publisher: New York, H. Holt and company
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the Church did not;lands which had been granted her in feudal tenure be-came property in mortmain, consequently the lord couldno longer levy any of the dues for transmission of prop-erty, mentioned above. Then the Church was compelled,on acquiring a fief, to pay once for all a large sum downby the right of amortissement, often equal to the value ofthe property, and never less than half; she was also forcedto place a man over it to represent her, to live and diefor the Church, in the event of whose death the chargeson change of property might be collected. 26. The Church Supports the Royal Power and RestrainsFeudal Anarchy.—On the whole the Church lost nothing^by this arrangement. She was under the protection ofthe king and his officers. Although taxes for the benefitof the king had been done away with, she still collectedtithes; a contribution resembling the one paid by theIsraelites to the tribe of Levi, whose payment had been,considered a pious act by the Merovingians, and made a
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EXCESSES OF PRIVATE WARS. 265 legal one by the Carolingians. In effect the clergy wasclosely associated with what remained of the government;it provided the king and great feudal lords with educatedand able counsellors, who were, moreover, little to befeared, since, on account of the celibacy of the priesthood^there was no danger of their offices becoming hereditary.In addition to this, the Church, inspired by the spirit ofdiscipline and obedience, writing and preaching in thename of a religion of peace and charity, was the naturalenemy of feudal anarchy. 27. Excesses of Private Wars. The Peace and theTruce of God.—At the end of the tenth century, andunder the early Capetians, the state of affairs was pitable.War weighed heavily on all points of the kingdoms whichhad sprung from the Carolingian empire. Feudal lordsin France waged constant warfare: Anjou against Cham-pagne and Brittany; Normandy against Anjou; Perigordagainst Poitou; Acquitaine against Toulouse; Flandersagainst Lorra

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