ABSTRACT
Ideas, rituals, practices, and reforming monks travelled out from major centres like Cluny and Gorze, Trier and Glastonbury. If this had been literally followed, St Bernard himself, as abbot of Clairvaux, would have been constantly on the move. At Agen on the Garonne, lay the relics of a very shadowy Roman martyr. In the same eleventh century which saw St Faith's basilica spring up in Conques, a greater than Faith appeared in Burgundy. The traditional teaching of the Church had been to condemn war. It was part of a larger movement, expansion of Europe, against Islam and paganism in Spain, all through Mediterranean, in Syria and Holy Land, and in Slavonic countries bordering on East Germany. The Song of Roland was the work of a Christian cleric. But the meeting of intellectual endeavour and the Wanderlust, which John of Salisbury so clearly represents, is at least a symbol to us of the channels these influences found.
