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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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Fig. 228.—Solemn Reception of a Bishop. Arrival of St. Gery at Cambrai, where he was appointed bishop, in 589. View of the city, the ramparts, and the church dedicated to St. Medard, and founded by St. Gery.—Miniature from the Chroniques du Hainaut (Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century), Burgundian Library, Brussels. oath which I undertake to observe. It is worthy of notice that this formula was already in use in the time of Pope Gelasius, in the fifth century. From the sixth century, the influence which the bishops enjoyed under the Roman empire went on increasing. Chilperic I was alarmed at its progress, declaring that the bishops alone were supreme in the cities. Each one administered the affairs of his diocese with sovereign authority (Fig. 228), and, by means of the councils convoked by the kings, they THE SECULAR CLERGY. 287 governed the whole of the kingdom. In Gaul, there were twenty-five councils during the fifth century, fifty-four in the sixth, and twenty in thes eventh, all of w

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