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Leaders of the People

Note 10 — Archbishop Anselm and Norman Autocracy 1093–1109

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“By the surrender of the significant ceremony of delivering the bishopric by the emblematic staff and ring, it was emphatically put on record that the spiritual powers of the bishop were not the king’s to give; the prescription of feudalism was broken.”—Church, Saint Anselm.

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