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Description:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... done, it became necessary to protect the clergy from the cold by constructing wooden screens, or in some cases stone walls, along the sides of the choir between it and the passage round it. Hence the place of the clergy was separated even more conspicuously than before from the place of the laity. It was a sort of church within the church, enclosed by walls, entered only by gates, which were commonly shut, and ordinarily accessible only to those who wore a special dress.1 For there is another result of the canonical life which has been no less permanent than the structural arrangements of churches. The climate of the North was not less severe in the Middle Ages than it is now, and at the same time artificial modes of producing heat were both fewer and more cumbrous. The cold was warded off not so much by fires as by the use of warmer clothing than is now commonly worn. Furs were in ordinary use, and the ordinary winter dress of those who lived the canonical life was a fur coat. Such a coat was allowed also to monks, and is prescribed in the statutes of several orders. But between canons and monks there was a point of difference which seems to have been universally maintained. A monk might not wear linen; a canon might do so. A monk must appear, whether in a church or in a monastery, in his woollen cowl; a canon threw a linen blouse over his fur coat, and was thereby known to be a canon and not a monk. There is an anecdote in one of the histories of St. Gall which will illustrate this point. Solomon, afterwards Bishop of Constance and Abbot of St. Gall, used in earlier days to go to the monastery, to the annoyance of the monks, without being himself a monk; it was part of the annoyance that in doing so he wore, as he was entitled to do, a...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Growth of Church Institutions. To get started finding The Growth of Church Institutions, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... done, it became necessary to protect the clergy from the cold by constructing wooden screens, or in some cases stone walls, along the sides of the choir between it and the passage round it. Hence the place of the clergy was separated even more conspicuously than before from the place of the laity. It was a sort of church within the church, enclosed by walls, entered only by gates, which were commonly shut, and ordinarily accessible only to those who wore a special dress.1 For there is another result of the canonical life which has been no less permanent than the structural arrangements of churches. The climate of the North was not less severe in the Middle Ages than it is now, and at the same time artificial modes of producing heat were both fewer and more cumbrous. The cold was warded off not so much by fires as by the use of warmer clothing than is now commonly worn. Furs were in ordinary use, and the ordinary winter dress of those who lived the canonical life was a fur coat. Such a coat was allowed also to monks, and is prescribed in the statutes of several orders. But between canons and monks there was a point of difference which seems to have been universally maintained. A monk might not wear linen; a canon might do so. A monk must appear, whether in a church or in a monastery, in his woollen cowl; a canon threw a linen blouse over his fur coat, and was thereby known to be a canon and not a monk. There is an anecdote in one of the histories of St. Gall which will illustrate this point. Solomon, afterwards Bishop of Constance and Abbot of St. Gall, used in earlier days to go to the monastery, to the annoyance of the monks, without being himself a monk; it was part of the annoyance that in doing so he wore, as he was entitled to do, a...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Growth of Church Institutions. To get started finding The Growth of Church Institutions, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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