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  • The mendicant monks stirred up the populace to acts of fanatical enmity.
  • To counteract it celibacy was finally imposed on the clergy, and the great mendicant orders evolved; while the constant polemic of the Cathar teachers against the cruelty, rapacity and irascibility of the Jewish tribal god led the church to prohibit the circulation of the Old Testament among laymen.
  • Faqir - names originally designating only the mendicant orders).
  • The form of government was borrowed largely from those prevailing in the mendicant orders.
  • Mistress of the entire Christian organism, Rome thus gained control of international education, and the mendicant monks who formed her devoted militia lost no time in monopolizing the professorial chairs.
 
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