Chad D’s Reviews > Translating "clergie": Status, Education, and Salvation in Thirteenth-Century Vernacular Texts > Status Update

Huh. Apparently, in the 1100s and 1200s in France, there was a tendency among clerics and teachers to use their status over laity and students in order to give it away to those laity and students, to raise the lowly to level ground at the foot of the cross, and for everyone to think of walking the pilgrimage of the Christian life together, helping each other along the way.

That checks out.