The Franciscans in the Middle Ages
By: Michael Robson.
Series: Monastic orders
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Woodbridge, UK; Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Franciscans -- History.; Monastic and religious life -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Description: "Enjoying close relations with the popes, Franciscans were ideal instruments for the propagation of the reforms of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215; they were part of the landscape of medieval life, and their influence was felt throughout society, in both the lay and the secular spheres; Franciscans were prominent in the fields of theology, philosophy and science." "Intended for both the general and more specialist reader, this book explores the first two hundred and fifty years of the order's history and charts its rapid growth, development, pastoral ministry, educational organisation, missionary endeavour, and internal tensions and divisions."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-236) and index.

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