It also has the another most serious error, that consists of if saying that the altar is of the bishop, but the church is of another one any senhor.’ ‘ (LO GRASSO, B. Eclsia et Status. Rome: Selecti sources, 1952, p 241) the FEUDAL PRESENCE IN the MONASTERIES the monasteries also were children of its time. As it would be natural, they had suffered to benefits and inconveniences.
A feudal monastery, that was endowed by a noble gentleman or the sovereign of the region, enjoyed at that time of the so necessary protection. Thanks to the ownerships you, many monasteries had been constructed and endowed according to these. They had poor monasteries to the side of other rich ones and that large states possuam. These last ones had suffered more the bad consequences of the feudal system, therefore many times had been trusted as feudals ‘ ‘ abades-comendatrios’ ‘ , or feudal that was not clergymen. These embezzled the financial goods of the feudals and only gave origin to many inconveniences in discipline monastic, what it harmed the moral and the ethical aspects of the time. The CONTESTADORES OF the SOCIETY Coinciding with the height of the feudalismo and the sprouting of the bourgeoisie, had appeared in diverse points of the Europe movements of religious-popular matrix, called of contesters, been born some in ground European, and other mattering, probably by means of the cruzades.
Ambulant preachers, clergymen or laypeople they were arisen in general considering penance, criticizing the society, in bigger instance the religious society, the Church, the clergy, monges. Amongst them, most radical it seems to be of Arnoldo de Brscia. It criticized the magnificent one, the avarice, the hypocrisy of the cardinals. It called the Pope not apostolic man, but sanguinrio man, that for homicides and fires if made to respect.