. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . The Tables 93 Tlie TEMPTATION OF A MONK (. Hoy. 10 E. iv.). 770 THE BEGIXNINGS OF MODEHN ESGLAND. Theological speculation, then, comhined with more practicalmotives to exalt the realm of Satan and the powers of darknessuntil they were regarded as equal in extent and influence tothe kingdom of God. Thus all natural phenomena of a destruc-tive kind—storms, famines, pesti
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . The Tables 93 Tlie TEMPTATION OF A MONK (. Hoy. 10 E. iv.). 770 THE BEGIXNINGS OF MODEHN ESGLAND. Theological speculation, then, comhined with more practicalmotives to exalt the realm of Satan and the powers of darknessuntil they were regarded as equal in extent and influence tothe kingdom of God. Thus all natural phenomena of a destruc-tive kind—storms, famines, pestilences, and even eclipses—wereregarded as manifestations of Satans power. But these wereexceptional and atiected the world at large. The individual wastouched through the arts of the sorcerer and the sorceress, whowere the priests of devil-worship. Hence sorcery was treated withextraordinary leniency l)y the Church. In England the laws ofsome of the Anglo-Saxon kings dealt with it occasionally, hutafter the Xorman Conquest it finds no place in the treatises ofthe great lawjers of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It wasconsidered a matter for exorcism, not foi punishment : for it wasnot regarde
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