... bureaucracy and distributed land estates granted in feudal tenure to those clergy who were apt and able but also of good repute. Benedicts well off deeds were undone in large part due to Clement VI (1342-1352) and his spendthrift ways. One of the unwanted repercussions was the ever popular centralizing and bureaucratization of church leadership, though during this ... medieval church being corrupt as well as a totalitarian, intolerant, and even murderous institution is the persistent but often misrepresented medieval Inquisition. A distinguished Protestant scholar by the name of Henry Cha...

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