Ontario High School History of England . Norman MonasteryConjectural restoration of Kirkstall Abbey as in 1190. from the quiet that devotees may have wished. The claimsof the world were sometimes too fully recognized. Someabbots lived in great state, took part in worldly ambitionsand amusements, and neglected their religious time to time, reformers attacked the prevailingabuses and founded new orders of monks to enforce astricter rule. The mendicant orders.—^The aim of the monk was to liveapart from the world. Yet in that world, on which heturned his back, there was much that might
Ontario High School History of England . Norman MonasteryConjectural restoration of Kirkstall Abbey as in 1190. from the quiet that devotees may have wished. The claimsof the world were sometimes too fully recognized. Someabbots lived in great state, took part in worldly ambitionsand amusements, and neglected their religious time to time, reformers attacked the prevailingabuses and founded new orders of monks to enforce astricter rule. The mendicant orders.—^The aim of the monk was to liveapart from the world. Yet in that world, on which heturned his back, there was much that might be towns were growing up, with their problems of crime,poverty, and disease, requiring the devotion of Christian THE RISE OF THE COMMONS 95. service. In time men arose to grapple with these most famous of these reformers is an Italian of asweet and tender spirit, Francis of Assisi (1182-1226). Hisaim was to act as Christ had acted, togo about doing good among the sick andneedy. In order to keep his followers intouch with the poor, he provided that theyshould remain beggars,—mendicants, de-pendent upon charity for their daily bread,as they went about preaching and servingthe people. Another leader of similarspirit arose at the same time. Whenheretics, known as Albigenses, becamenumerous in southern France and north-ern Italy, Dominic, a Spaniard, wentamong them in the hope of winning themback by kindly instruction. If Francispitied the suffering, Dominic pitied theignorant. Even when Pope Innocent IIIproclaimed an armed crusade against theAlbigenses, Dominic continued his gentler work of time he founded the order of Dominicans, and Francisthat of the Franciscans. Both orders soon began to workin Engl
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