Goliard, any of the wandering students and clerics in medieval England, France, and Germany, remembered for their satirical verses and poems in praise of drinking and debauchery.
Aspiring only to the purity of early Christianity, they were appalled by the worldliness of the medieval papacy and its debauched clerics.
The gap seems to be widening, however, between the minimum demands of the latter (who are now holding a meeting in Jerusalem that is almost an alternative to the Lambeth show) and the maximum concessions that liberals could offer.The other recent ceremony involved the union in a medieval London church of two male clerics.
Humanism was initiated by secular men of letters rather than by the scholar-clerics who had dominated medieval intellectual life and had developed the Scholastic philosophy.
And according to the writings of Mary Dzon, a medieval literature expert at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville, many clerics even in that era may not have taught these stories, but permitted them to flourish as useful devotional fictions.
A principal theme of medieval pornography was the sexual depravity (and hypocrisy) of monks and other clerics.
Young and impressionable, Thurstan is soon beset by temptation as an alliance of land-hungry knights and avaricious clerics scheme to bring Sicily firmly within the fold of medieval Christendom.
The works of the medieval poets Hafiz and Saadi are filled with deep longing for beautiful women, although the clerics insist that the images of perfumed hair and luminous faces refer to spiritual, not temporal, love.
In medieval Scotland education was dominated by the Church and largely aimed at the training and education of clerics.
Worse, stacking the tribunal entirely with pro-English clergy violated the medieval Church's requirement that heresy trials needed to be judged by an impartial or balanced group of clerics.
