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19 - The Law of Benefices

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2022

Anders Winroth
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Universitetet i Oslo
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In the Middle Ages, the Church was by far the wealthiest institution in the western world. From the end of the fifth century, the greatest part of its property served to maintain the clergy; hence the importance of the subject. The prohibition against alienating ecclesiastical property and the rules about celibacy, which reliably prevented any kind of hereditary claims, meant that each generation had to redistribute the use of this enormous fortune.

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