The Church and the laity
André Vauchez
There was an enormous effort to make the religious beliefs and practices of faithful conform more demands Christianity, as Christianity defined by Catholic Church. The Church first made reinforce prestige ordinary priests, who, especially in countryside, were barely distinguishable from faithful, either because their way life or even knowledge. In twelfth century, it accepted that, under certain conditions, laity women could speak public about questions matters related thirteenth a great educate religion. It is commonly that towards 1270, they had better knowledge fundamental than did hundred years earlier.
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