Charles The Good Galbert of Bruges

We see evidence of the growth of commerce and trade in the writing of Galbert, and we also see that the diverse peoples, technologies, and commerce that were merging in Flanders required the one thing that Charles had been able to provide – the security and calm of peace. As Galbert writes “At this time the merchants from all the kingdoms of Flanders had come together at Ypres…where the market and all the fairs were going on; they were in the habit of carrying on their business safely under the peace and protection of the most pious count” (Ross 123). We see that the enormous pressure put upon the land by all the peasants who sought land for tenures and knights for fifes exacerb

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ves us two conflicting factions of clergy. He also provides some examples of clergy who in his estimation were of religious feeling and deep commitment to their faith. We see this when Galbert speaks of the house of the brothers of Saint Donatian, where Bertulf sold canonical prebend by force not canonical election and where the canons “had formerly been deeply religious men and perfectly educate…Restraining his pride, they had held him in check by advice and by Catholic doctrine so that he could not undertake anything unseemly in the church” (Ross 115-116). Of course, after the death of these advisors, Bertulf’s ambitious and less than religious motives get the better of him. FOUR: We see portrayals of other groups of people that tell us much about medieval life. The peasants and merchants are in opposition against the nobility. The transition to a commercially oriented economy has created conflict between the old ruling class and the new merchant class. The court, new laws, and bureaucratic control of the towns created conflict between the new men, often of servile origins and the old nobility, and the desire of the new men to merge into the noble class. Women are perceived as of lower status than men but they serve usef
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