The Origin, Development, and Refinement of Medieval Religious Mendicancies
By: edited by Donald Prudlo
Series: Brill's companions to the Christian tradition -- v. 24
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9789004181809
Subjects: Friars; History; Church history
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-372) and index.
Table of contents: title: The origins of religious mendicancy in medieval Europe / Augustine Thompson; title: From Osma to Bologna, from canons to friars, from the preaching to the preachers : the Dominican path towards mendicancy / Anthony John Lappin; title: Female mendicancy, a failed experiment? : the case of Saint Clare of Assisi / Joan Mueller; title: Mendicancy among the early saints of the begging orders / Donald S. Prudlo; title: Pastoral care, inquisition, and mendicancy in the medieval Franciscan Order / Holly J. Grieco; title: The forging of an intellectual defense of mendicancy in the medieval university / Andrew Traver; title: Mendicants and the Italian communes in Salimbene's Cronaca / David Foote; title: Mendicant orders and the reality of economic life in Italy in the Middle Ages / Antonio Rigon; title: Effects of the spiritual Franciscan controversy on the mendicant ideal / David Burr; title: 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; title: Mendicancy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries : "ubi necessitas non urgeat" : the preachers facing the "refrigescens caritas" / Silvia Nocentini.