| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 382 pages) |
| Series |
Brill's companions to the Christian tradition, 1871-6377 ; v. 24 |
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Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; v. 24.
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| Contents |
The origins of religious mendicancy in medieval Europe / Augustine Thompson -- From Osma to Bologna, from canons to friars, from the preaching to the preachers : the Dominican path towards mendicancy / Anthony John Lappin -- Female mendicancy, a failed experiment? : the case of Saint Clare of Assisi / Joan Mueller -- Mendicancy among the early saints of the begging orders / Donald S. Prudlo -- Pastoral care, inquisition, and mendicancy in the medieval Franciscan Order / Holly J. Grieco -- The forging of an intellectual defense of mendicancy in the medieval university / Andrew Traver -- Mendicants and the Italian communes in Salimbene's Cronaca / David Foote -- Mendicant orders and the reality of economic life in Italy in the Middle Ages / Antonio Rigon -- Effects of the spiritual Franciscan controversy on the mendicant ideal / David Burr -- The hidden life of the friars : the mendicant orders in the work of Walter Hilton, William Langland, Geoffrey Chaucer, and their literary world / Patricia R. Bart -- Mendicancy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries : "ubi necessitas non urgeat" : the preachers facing the "refrigescens caritas" / Silvia Nocentini |
| Summary |
The purpose and intention of this handbook is to offer an analysis of the term mendicancy and to present an up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to the phenomenon of religious mendicancy in the central and later middle ages. It provides a contextualized guide that will introduce the central issues in contemporary scholarship regarding the mendicant orders. This project approaches the controversies from a multitude of angles and unites in one volume the insights of different disciplines such as social and intellectual history, literary analysis, and theology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-372) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Friars -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
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Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
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RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations.
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Church history -- Middle Ages
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Friars
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Prudlo, Donald, 1976-
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| ISBN |
9789004210646 |
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9004210644 |
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1283160706 |
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9781283160704 |
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