tyranny, might seize his temporalities and might keep him out of the land; but in the eye of the Church he remained none the less the Archbishop of the English kingdom, with his power of binding and loosing as strong as ever.[1] Anselm was not only not to give up his office; he was to make a point of always appearing with the full badges of his office.[2] Even now Anselm seems to have been in some difficulties how to reconcile his two duties to God and to Cæsar, difficulties which he would doubtless have got rid of altogether by resigning the archbishopric.[3] But he submits to the Pontiff's will, and he is bidden to meet him again at Bari, where judgement will be given in the matter of the King of the English and of all others who interfere with the liberties of the Church.[4]
Council of Bari. October 1, 1098.
Anselm at Rome.
Then came the meeting at Bari, the disputation
against the Greeks, the excommunication of Rufus
stopped by Anselm's intercession.[5] That Anselm was
playing an arranged part we cannot believe for a
moment; but we may believe, without breach of charity,
that Urban threatened the excommunication of Rufus
in the full belief that Anselm would intercede for him.
Urban and Anselm then went back to Rome; and
thither presently came the messenger from Normandy,
who had to tell of the King's frightful threats to-*
- ↑ A debate on this head, in rather long speeches between Urban and Anselm, is given in Hist. Nov. 48. The main doctrine stands thus; "Si propter tyrannidem principis, qui nunc ibi dominatur, in terram illam redire non permitteris, jure tamen Christianitatis semper illius archiepiscopus esto, potestatem ligandi atque solvendi super eam dum vixeris obtinens."
- ↑ Ib. "Et insignibus pontificalibus more summi pontificis utens ubicunque fueris."
- ↑ He again describes his whole struggle between the two duties, how he believed that he could reconcile both, how others told him that he could not, and he asks, "Et ego, pater, inter tales quid facerem?"
- ↑ Ib. 49. "De ipso rege Anglico suisque et sui similibus qui contra libertatem ecclesiæ Dei se erexerunt."
- ↑ See above, p. 608.
