. Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies. ing. He was married and a war-rior; he squandered the episcopal revenues in a consciencelessnepotic policy. His successor Robert, a son of Richard I, wasone of the most worldly of prelates, and far more interested inhis possessions as Count of Evreux than in his churchly at the end of his long reign he repented of his evilways, reformed his life, and, as one of his acts of penitence,rebuilt his cathedral church. Malger, who succeeded in 1037,had been a scholar of William of Dij
. Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies. ing. He was married and a war-rior; he squandered the episcopal revenues in a consciencelessnepotic policy. His successor Robert, a son of Richard I, wasone of the most worldly of prelates, and far more interested inhis possessions as Count of Evreux than in his churchly at the end of his long reign he repented of his evilways, reformed his life, and, as one of his acts of penitence,rebuilt his cathedral church. Malger, who succeeded in 1037,had been a scholar of William of Dijon at Fecamp, and was awhole-souled partisan of the Cluniac movement. From thismoment the archbishops of Rouen were men of unimpeachablecharacter, devoted to the reform and purification of the Church.• Similarly over all Normandy, about the year 1000, thereswept a great wave of religious enthusiasm. The founding of > Bohmer. Kirche und Staat in England und der Nomiandte im XI und XII , 1899. 8vo. p. 11. An excellent work to which I am indebted for much thatfollows. 242. 111. lil. — Juuiieges. West Facade RISE OF THE MONASTERIES monasteries became almost a mania. To the four abbeys whichexisted before the year 1000, there were added before 1066 noless than twenty great monasteries for men and six convents forwomen. So many were the monks, that the edified contempo-rary, William of Poitiers, compared the country to Egypt in theIV and V centuries. The rise of the monasteries brought about a great revival oflearning, whose effects, however, came to be fully felt only to-wards the middle of the XI century. The schools of Normandybecame renowned throughout the West; students flocked fromthe remotest parts of Europe to listen to the Norman even Cluny herself could rival in learning the fame of Bee,of Fecamp, or of Jumieges. Normandy became the recognizedfountainhead of scholastic theology, in which was summed upthe intellectual attainment of the X
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