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Acknowledgments The present volume is founded upon my book Medieval Religion, which was published in 1934 and has been out of print for eight years. It contains all the six essays which appeared in the earlier work, as well as four unpublished essays, Numbers I, II, VII and X. In addition to these I have included an essay on the decline of the Roman world which first appeared in A Monument to St. Augustine and one on Church and State in the Middle Ages which is reprinted by kind permission of Burns and Oates from a volume of lectures on Church and State delivered at Cambridge in 1935 and published in the following year. I also desire to thank Messrs. Chapman and Hall for their kindness in allowing me to make quotations from the late Charles ScottMoncrieV ’s translation of The Song of Roland (1919). Finally I must record the debt that I owe to Mr. Frank Sheed for the help he has given me during the discussion of these essays and for many valuable suggestions and criticisms. C. D. 3 ...

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