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A Guide to Franciscan Studies (Paperback)
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A Guide to Franciscan Studies (Paperback)
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IT is difficult for a modern to enter into the thoughts and
feelings of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Anyone who reads
about St. Francis without having studied the age and country in
which he lived is certain to misunderstand a good deal of what he
reads; he would undoubtedly gain much from such reading, and might
by degrees build up round the central object of his study the
knowledge necessary to understand the general environment; but
knowledge so acquired is apt to be deficient, one-sided, and full
of gaps, and it is safer for a student to start from a general
acquaintance with the European history of the period before
embarking on any special medieval study. A student equipped with
this general knowledge, who was attracted by St. Francis
(1182-1226), might begin by reading one of the numerous Lives which
have been published recently-either Sabatier's famous Vie de S.
Franfois d' Assise (1st edition, 1894), which should be read in the
original French, or Father Cuthbert's sympathetic Life of St.
Francis of Assisi (Longmans, 1912), which has the advantage of
being based on later researches. Gebhart's L'Italie mystique
(Paris, 1890), though often inaccurate in details, contains very
suggestive chapters on a phase of thought and feeling
charactcristic of the thirteenth century and of the early
Franciscan movement. The present Writer was led to begin a long
course of Franciscan study by reading Brewer's preface to Monumenta
Franciscana, . (Rolls Series)-an essay which is more or less out of
date now, but still retains inspiring qualities. Two classes of
controversial writings bearing on the history of the Order are to
be distinguished: according as they are concerned-(a) with the
controversies between the Mendicant Orders and the secular clergy;
(b) with controversies within the Franciscan Order about the
interpretation of the Rule and the observance of poverty. Both were
complicated by the adhesion of a powerful section of the
Franciscans to the doctrines of Joachim of Flora and the inferences
drawn from them
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