ARNOLD
, known as " ARNOLD OF See also:BRESCIA (d
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1155), one of the most ardent adversaries of the temporal See also:power of the popes
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He belonged to a See also:family of importance, if not See also:noble, and was See also:born probably at Brescia, in See also:Italy, towards the end of the I1th See also:century
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He distinguished himself in his monastic studies, and went to See also:France about 1115
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He studied See also:theology in See also:Paris, but there is no See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof that he was a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of See also:Abelard
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Returning to Italy he became a See also:canon See also:regular
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His See also:life was rigidly austere, St See also:Bernard calling him "homo neque See also:man-damns neque bibens." He at once directed his efforts against the corruption of the See also:clergy, and especially against the temporal ambitions of the high dignitaries of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church
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During the See also:schism of Anacletus (1131–1137) the See also:town of Brescia was torn by the struggles between the partisans of See also:Pope See also:Innocent II. and the adherents of the See also:anti-pope, and Arnold gave effect to his abhorrence of the See also:political episcopate by inciting the See also:people to rise against their See also:bishop, and, exiled by Innocent II., went to France
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St Bernard accused him of sharing the doctrines of Abelard (see Ep
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189, 195), and procured his condemnation by the See also:council of See also:Sens (114o) at the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time as that of the See also:great scholastic
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This was perhaps no more than the outcome of the fierce polemical spirit of the See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
abbot of See also:Clairvaux, which led him to include all his adversaries under a single See also:anathema
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It seems certain that Arnold professed moral theology in Paris, and several times reprimanded St Bernard, whom he accused of See also:pride and See also:jealousy
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St Bernard, as a last resort, begged See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis VII. to take severe See also:measures against Arnold, who had to leave France and take See also:refuge at See also:Zurich
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There he soon became popular, especially with the See also:lay See also:nobility; but, denounced anew by St Bernard to the ecclesiastical authorities, he returned to Italy, and turned his steps towards See also:Rome (1145)
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It was two years since, in 1143, the See also:Romans had rejected the temporal power of the pope
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The See also:urban nobles had set up a See also:republic, which, under forms ostensibly modelled on antiquity (e.g. patriciate, senatus populusque See also:romanus, &c.), concealed but clumsily a purely oligarchical See also:government
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Pope See also:Eugenius III. and his adherents had been forced after a feeble resistance to resign themselves to See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile at See also:Viterbo
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Arnold, after returning to Rome, immediately began a See also:campaign of virulent denunciation against the See also:Roman clergy, and, in particular, against the See also:Curia, which he stigmatized as a See also:house of merchandise and den of thieves." His enemies have attributed to him certain doctrinal heresies, but their accusations do not See also:bear examination
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According to See also:Otto of See also:Freising (See also:Lib. de gestis Friderici, bk. ii. See also:chap. xx.) the whole of his teaching, outside the See also:preaching of penitence, was summed up in these See also:maxims:—" Clerks who have estates, bishops who hold fiefs, monks who possess See also:property, cannot be saved." His eloquence gained him a See also:hearing and a numerous following, including many laymen, but consisting principally of poor ecclesiastics, who formed around him a party characterized by a rigid morality and not unlike the Lombard See also:Patarenes of the zith century
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But his purely political See also:action was very restricted, and not to be compared with that of a See also:Rienzi or a See also:Savonarola
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The Roman revolution availed itself of Arnold's popularity, and of his theories, but was carried out without his aid
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His name was associated with this political reform solely because his was the only vigorous See also:personality which stood out from the See also:mass of rebels, and because he was the See also:principal victim of the repression that ensued
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On the 15th of See also:July 1148 Eugenius III. anathematized Arnold and his adherents; but when, a See also:short time -afterwards, the pope, through the support of the king of See also:Naples and the king of France, succeeded in entering Rome, Arnold remained in the town unmolested, under the See also:protection of the See also:senate
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But in 1152 the See also:German king See also:Conrad III., whom the papal party and the Roman republic had in vain begged to intervene, was succeeded by See also:Frederick I
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See also:Barbarossa
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Frederick, whose authoritative See also:temper was at once offended by the See also:independent See also:tone of the Arnoldist party, concluded with the pope a treaty of See also:alliance (See also:October 16, 1152) of such a nature that the Arnoldists were at once put in a minority in the Roman government; and when the second successor of Eugenius III., the energetic and austere AdrianIV.(the
Englishman, See also:Nicholas Breakspear), placed Rome under an See also:interdict, the senate, already rudely shaken, submitted, and Arnold was forced to See also:fly into See also:Campania (1155)
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At the See also:request of the pope he was seized by See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of the See also:emperor Frederick, then in Italy, and delivered to the See also:prefect of Rome, by whom he was condemned to See also:death
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In See also:June 1155 Arnold was hanged, his See also:body burnt, and the ashes were thrown into the See also:Tiber
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His death produced but a feeble sensation in Rome, which was already pacified, and passed almost unnoticed in Italy
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The adherents of Arnold do not appear actually to have formed, either before or after his death, a heretical See also:sect
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It is probable that his adherents became merged in the communities of the Lombard Waldenses, who shared their ideas on the corruption of the clergy
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See also:Legend, See also:poetry, See also:drama and politics have from time to time been much occupied with the personality of Arnold of Brescia, and not seldom have distorted it, through the See also:desire to see in him a See also:hero of See also:Italian See also:independence and a See also:modern democrat
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He was before everything an ascetic, who denied to the church the right of holding property, and who occupied himself only as an See also:accessory with the political and social See also:con-sequences of his religious principles
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The bibliography of Arnold of Brescia is very vast and of very unequal value
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The following See also:works will be found useful: W. von See also:Giesebrecht, Arnold von Brescia (See also:Munich, 1873) ; G
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Gaggia, Arnaldo da Brescia (Brescia, 1882) ; and notices by Vacandard in the Revue See also:des questions hisloriques (Paris, 1884), pp
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52-114, by R
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Breyer in the Histor
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Taschenbuch (See also:Leipzig, 1889), vol. viii. pp
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I23-178, and by A
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See also:Hausrath in Neue See also:Heidelberg
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Jahrb
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(1891), See also:Band i. pp
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72-144
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