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“The clergy had won the battle in the Twelfth Century because they deserved to win it … Their hearts were in their vows, their authority was exercised more justly, more nobly than the authority of the crown; and therefore with inevitable justice, the crown was compelled to stoop before them. The victory was great; but, like many victories, it was fatal to the conquerors. It filled them full with the vanity of power … and when a century later the conflict recommenced, the altering issue proved the altering nature of the conditions under which it was fought.”1
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© 1978 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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White, H.B. (1978). Ciphers to this Great Accompt. In: Antiquity Forgot. International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives, vol 90. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9663-2_5
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