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Title: Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884
Subjects: Middle Ages Civilization, Medieval Civilization, Renaissance Costume Military art and science Christian life
Publisher: London : Bickers & Son
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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episcopal court, confined to the vassals of the bishops temporalities. Throughout the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the episcopal power was engaged in a ceaseless struggle with a turbulent bourgeoisie (Fig. 235), whose spirit of opposition drove it into open and armed rebellion. In order to obviate this, and to order an effective resistance to the civil authority, itself overpowered by the populace, several diocesan chapters formed a league with the clergy and with the monks; but this did not bring them any increase of strength to combat the lay magistrates, because the bishop often deserted their cause or showed himself indifferent to it. Hence arose excommunications, imprisonments, proscriptions, and acts of seizure which only led to increased scandal. The schism which desolated the Christian world since the death of Gregory IX. (1378), the struggle for influence between the anti-pope Urban VI. and Pope Clement VII., were not calculated to allay the internal troubles of the Church.
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Fig. 235. -Title of the Concordat of Cambrai, agreed upon in 1466 by the bishop, the chapter, and the commune of the town for the maintenance of peace. This charter commences with the words NOUS in illuminated letters. The first letter (N) encircles an angel holding the escutcheon of bishop John of Burgundy; the Latin inscription signifies, "Glory to God in the highest, and on the earth peace, good will toward men." The letter O represents the arms of the chapter, surmounted by Notre-Dame de Flammes, with the words in Latin, "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you." The third letter (U) is symbolic of the commune of Cambrai, and so expresses a peaceful idea in the motto, "Hisabode is an abode of peace." Amongst the witnesses, numbering more than a hundred, who signed this Concordat, was the Chronicler of Cambrai, Enguerrand de Monstrelet. -Facsimile of original, preserved in the Archives du Nord, at Lille, and the text of which was published by M.L. Dancoisne, at Hénin-Liétard.


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