Leaders of the People: Studies in Democratic HistoryClayton, Joseph
History
Leaders of the People: Studies in Democratic History
Clayton, Joseph
Democracy; Great Britain -- History
[2] No Archbishop of Canterbury has received the pallium since Cranmer,
but the sign of it remains in the archiepiscopal arms of Canterbury.
[3] “No one in those days imagined Christianity without Christendom,
and Christendom without a Pope: and all these bishops understood
exactly as Anselm did the favourite papal text, ‘Thou art Peter, and
on this rock I will build my Church.’ Nobody in those days doubted the
divine authority of the Pope.”--Church, _Saint Anselm_.
[4] “The boldness of Anselm’s attitude not only broke the tradition of
ecclesiastical servitude, but infused through the nation at large a new
spirit of independence.”--J. R. Green.
[5] “When in Anglo-Norman times you speak of the ‘King’s Court,’ it is
only a phrase for the king’s despotism.”--Sir F. Palgrave, _History of
Normandy and England_.
[6] “The see of St. Peter was the acknowledged constitutional centre
of spiritual law in the West.... It was looked upon as the guide and
regulator of teaching, the tribunal and court from which issued the
oracles of right and discipline, the judgment seat to which an appeal
was open to all, and which gave sentence on wrong and vice without
fear or favour, without respect of persons, even the highest and
the mightiest.... If ever there was a time when the popes honestly
endeavoured to carry out the idea of their office, it was just at this
period of the Middle Ages. They attempted to erect an independent
throne of truth and justice above the passions and the force which
reigned in the world around.”--Church, _Saint Anselm_.
“Under the rule of William the Red, law had become unlaw, and in
appealing from him to the apostolic throne Anselm might deem he was
appealing from mere force and fraud to the only shadow of right that
was still left on earth.”--Freeman, _Norman Conquest_, Vol. V.
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