Armsbearing

II. A MILITIA OF ALL MEN CAPABLE OF ARMSBEARING.

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Could this be effected; could all the population of the Turkish empire, of armsbearing age, be enlisted in an army, organized, disciplined, and led like the armies of France and of England, it would indeed make the Porte formidable, not merely to the Greeks, but to the leading powers in Europe, who are now able to look, with stoical calmness, at the feeble and ineffectual blows aimed by Turkey at a people who stand on the frontier of Christendom.

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Within a few decades both the regular Dominicans and Franciscans, admittedly in response to more recent papal legislation as well as to these stipulations of the 1280s, were allowing armsbearing to their members under certain conditions;

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As was made clear by the council of Coyanza, prohibitions on clerical armsbearing were developed in the context of the wider drive to reform the clergy of Europe in councils that were often presided over by the pope’s own representatives.

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