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


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