PART II

THERE can be but little doubt that in the early years of the eleventh century the doctrine taught by Paschasius Radbert that the elements are wholly converted by consecration into that body and blood of Christ which He took from the Virgin, in which He was born and suffered and died, which was buried in the tomb and rose and ascended into heaven, was usually held in the West; and it is probable that in many cases it was held without the emphasis on the spiritual character of the conversion at the consecration and of the presence after consecration which had marked the teaching of Paschasius himself.