Friday, 23 March 2018

The idea of the Church as a divinely ordained living organism, or 'Body of Christ'

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The idea [or metaphor] of the Church as a divinely ordained living organism, or 'Body of Christ', was commonplace in early medieval...
Monday, 19 March 2018

Some Notes on John of Salisbury's Theory of Kingship as outlined in Policraticus Book IV

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John of Salisbury outlines what he thinks the worldly and religious duties of a King ought be in his Policraticus Book IV. This book was de...

Kingship defined in the Old Testatment in the Bible

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John of  Salisbury makes a reference in his book Policraticus on the Theory of Christian Kingship defined in the Old Testament in the Bible ...
Sunday, 4 March 2018

Pope Alexander III's Letter to Thomas Becket confirming Primacy of Canterbury

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This was an attempt by the Pope to end the rivalry between the ecclesiastical provinces of York and Canterbury [and the See of London] in Ca...
Saturday, 3 March 2018

King Henry II's Letter to Reginald of Cologne [Rainald of Dassel]

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Extract from Roger (of Wendover); Matthew Paris (1849).  Roger of Wendover's Flowers of History: Comprising the History of England ...
Sunday, 17 December 2017

Chronicle of the Battle of Lewes, May 1264

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Visions of St. Thomas Becket and St. George, both England's national saints, are said to have during the Battle of Lewes in 1264 in whic...
Thursday, 30 November 2017

The Letter of William, archbishop of Sens, to pope Alexander, on the death of the blessed Thomas.

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Latin version Chronica magistri Rogeri de Houedene Vol II p. 22- by Roger, of Hoveden Edited by William Stubbs https://archive.org/st...