This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...Many Franciscans believed that the Saint had forbidden church music altogether. The worst Vandalisms of the i7th century may be more than matched from the I3th and i4th; and a long chapter might be written on this one point. Churches were ravaged and ruined wholesale in war; even in peace, corn was n found ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...Many Franciscans believed that the Saint had forbidden church music altogether. The worst Vandalisms of the i7th century may be more than matched from the I3th and i4th; and a long chapter might be written on this one point. Churches were ravaged and ruined wholesale in war; even in peace, corn was n found stacked in the Cathedral of Parma, and a Devonshire parson used his nave not only as a barn, but as a brewhouse. Abundant evidence of this kind may be found in Father Denifle's La Desolation des Eglises, &c., and the visitations of Dean and Chapter churches for St. Paul's, Salisbury, and Exeter. In Italy, tombs were foully desecrated for mere political reasons; and jealous monks not only defaced paintings of St. Francis, but tore down the friars' crucifixes, and cast one at least into a cesspool. In short, the unlovely features of Puritanism are simply such as have attended most great religious revivals. It would be difficult to name any doctrine or practice distinctively Puritan--as distinguished from those common to all Protestants--for which ample authority may not be found among orthodox medieval churchmen. Much of the odium rightly incurred by the zealots of the 17th century is simply due to the fact that they were the first party strong enough to enforce, on an enormous scale, that exaggerated and often repulsive other-worldliness, which had for centuries been the ideal of the hermitage and the cloister. G. G. Coulton THE HIGH ANCESTRY OF PURITANISM. BY G. G. COULTON. (Reprinted by permission from the " Contemporary Review.") London: Printed By ALABASTER, PASSMORE AND SONS, 39--47, Whitecross Street, E.G. THE HIGH ANCESTRY OF PURITANISM. HE more generally the history of mediaeval religion is studied, no J longer by one party exclusively, ...
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