The Story of Avignon
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It was the Italian w'ars, the falling oft' of the Italian revenues, and the exhaustion of France by the English wars, leading to the merciless application of financial extortion all over Christendom, that laid the train which exploded in the Reformation. So driven for money was Clement VII that he forced his collectors to anticipate their payments under pain of excom- munication, and authorized them to pledge the ^ £. MiJNTz : L' Argent et le Luxe, etc. , pp. 403, 404. 238 Art and Luxury at Pap...al Avignon future fiscal revenues, or their own possessions, to raise ready money; and since the reputation of being a good collector was the shortest cut to a prelacy, the temptation to rapacity was overwhelming.^ Yet amid all this luxury, strange defects of comfort appear to the modern sense. Windows, as we have seen, were generally covered with waxeci cloth or linen; carpets were rare, and rushes were strewn on the floors of most of the rooms : from May to November 1349 I'^ore than 300 loads of rushes were supplied for use in the dining-rooms and chambers of the apostolic palace.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
It was the Italian w'ars, the falling oft' of the Italian revenues, and the exhaustion of France by the English wars, leading to the merciless application of financial extortion all over Christendom, that laid the train which exploded in the Reformation. So driven for money was Clement VII that he forced his collectors to anticipate their payments under pain of excom- munication, and authorized them to pledge the ^ £. MiJNTz : L' Argent et le Luxe, etc. , pp. 403, 404. 238 Art and Luxury at Pap...al Avignon future fiscal revenues, or their own possessions, to raise ready money; and since the reputation of being a good collector was the shortest cut to a prelacy, the temptation to rapacity was overwhelming.^ Yet amid all this luxury, strange defects of comfort appear to the modern sense. Windows, as we have seen, were generally covered with waxeci cloth or linen; carpets were rare, and rushes were strewn on the floors of most of the rooms : from May to November 1349 I'^ore than 300 loads of rushes were supplied for use in the dining-rooms and chambers of the apostolic palace.
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