tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post9141849869681523015..comments2024-03-25T20:43:33.067+00:00Comments on A Clerk of Oxford: The Almsgiving of Archbishop LanfrancClerk of Oxfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919708325900229717noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-41571219971116815692014-05-29T10:18:21.243+01:002014-05-29T10:18:21.243+01:00Anonymous, I agree.Anonymous, I agree.Clerk of Oxfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919708325900229717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-82956286310026693362014-05-29T10:15:16.915+01:002014-05-29T10:15:16.915+01:00Yes indeed - Archibishop Stigand has had fairly ro...Yes indeed - Archibishop Stigand has had fairly rotten time!<br /><br />However, I think St. Augustine, who evangelised England after being sent by Pope Gregory from Rome, may have some qualms about England being called Orthodox before the Norman Conquest. He and the archbishops of Canterbury did, after all, wear the pallium.<br /><br />Since the Great Schism only happened in 1054 and the EnglishAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-87746967266899466742013-05-29T23:37:06.360+01:002013-05-29T23:37:06.360+01:00Indeed, poor Stigand didn't deserve half the t...Indeed, poor Stigand didn't deserve half the things which were later said about him! Unfortunately, Norman contempt for (or bafflement at) the practices of the Anglo-Saxon church had a lasting influence which is still evident in the church today; it's a great shame.Clerk of Oxfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919708325900229717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-1136928052673976632013-05-29T20:22:32.543+01:002013-05-29T20:22:32.543+01:00I think that a lot of the vilification about Archb...I think that a lot of the vilification about Archbishop Stigand was Norman propaganda aimed at disparaging the English Church. Lanfranc was, after all, at the head of a Papally-approved reform of the English Church in order to bring it into line with Roman Catholicism.<br /><br />Before the Conquest England was Orthodox. Afterwards she was thoroughly Roman Catholic.Patrick Sheridanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07995907911415177074noreply@blogger.com