In a message dated 99-06-07 13:50:42 EDT, you write:
<< Has anyone mentioned the Patarini on N. Italy. My memory of the
literature on them is that they have a tie into the Gregorian attack on
simony. >>
Weren't they the Milanese sect who started the whole reform movement around
the year 1040? If that is so, wouldn't it be better to say that the
"Gregorian" reforms legitimized the anticlerical movement?
mark
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