Special thanks are also due to Julian Plante, Eric Hollas, OSB, and the staff of the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library in Collegeville, Minnesota, and to the staffs of the British Library in London, the Newberry Library in Chicago, the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, and the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbuttel for assistance during my visits there. [...] Second, the sharpening of distinctions between clergy and laity initiated by the Gregorian reform naturally under- scored the clergy's responsibilities towards the laity, and twelfth- century theologians began emphasizing the active, pastoral mission of the church in the world. [...] The spread of the canons regular in the twelfth century and the founding of the mendi- cant orders in the thirteenth reflect this new conception of the church militant, as does Innocent Ill's famous legislation re- garding the care of souls at the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215. [...] The author's own work is clear and direct, and presents a striking combination of the meditative and the prescriptive, which places the text in the broad grey area between theology and canon law (particularly in pastoral questions) that narrowed somewhat in the thirteenth century but never entirely closed.11 Unlike the pastoral manuals that proliferated at the same time and sought to provide cleri [...] On the important Introduction 7 transmutatur') in chapter 20,16 and the conferring on the priest of the two keys of power and knowledge in chapter 19.17 None of these datable ideas, considered on its own, would conclu- sively establish a date of origin for the text, but taken together they place the text in the ferment of ideas about the nature of the church and its priesthood circulating within a
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