. The outline of history : being a plain history of life and mankind. s and nuns. U do not think this is just. The Anglo-Saxona m, ,° , r 1. ii ^ ji 1- 1 were not anti-monastic. Thev were converted br They seem to have felt that the lives and Benedictine monks in 600 ; just after 700 they sent habits of these devotees were queer and out monks to convert Germany ; about 960, under unnatural. Dunstan and Edgar, they experienced a monastic The clash between what we may call the ^^^-^i- The Normans after looe introduced the i< J , , ., ,, J. , 1 ., ^ , Cluniac and Cistercian orders, and spread
. The outline of history : being a plain history of life and mankind. s and nuns. U do not think this is just. The Anglo-Saxona m, ,° , r 1. ii ^ ji 1- 1 were not anti-monastic. Thev were converted br They seem to have felt that the lives and Benedictine monks in 600 ; just after 700 they sent habits of these devotees were queer and out monks to convert Germany ; about 960, under unnatural. Dunstan and Edgar, they experienced a monastic The clash between what we may call the ^^^-^i- The Normans after looe introduced the i< J , , ., ,, J. , 1 ., ^ , Cluniac and Cistercian orders, and spread monasti- dark-whlte factors and the nCMcr cle- ^ism, while the earlier Northmen, after 900, were mentsin Christianity was no doubt intensified quite favourable to the Church in England. by Pope Gregory VIIs imposition of celibacy Note that Gregorys imposition of celibacy on the upon the Catholic priests in the eleventh ^::mZ:^Tt::i^ SL^^rfSn^ert!century. The East had known religious cell- through Archbisibates for thousands of years ; in the VVest England.—E. « o a O O £ *J -a *- >. •a o w u CO u 3 T) > c ?? B uo w </) <fl•d ^ C C ft)«< t! ^^ C5(A </) (X) O < H 2:OO t/5 C/) D ano I «3 ^. ^ CO RENASCENCE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION 391 Wycliffe opened became very speedily a claiming a crusade for the destruction of struggle of what one may call rational or the Wycliffites, Hussites, and all other here- laymans religion making its appeal to the tics in Bohemia, and attracted by this free intelligence and the free conscience in invitation the unemployed soldiers of fortune mankind, against authoritative, traditional, and all the drifting blackguardism of Europe ceremonial, and priestly religion. The ulti- converged upon that valiant country. They mate tendency of this complicated struggle found in Bohemia, under its great leader was to strip Christianity as bare as Islam of Ziska, more hardship and less loot than cru- every vestige of ancient priest
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