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Preaching, Building, and Burying - Friars in the Medieval City (Hardcover)
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Preaching, Building, and Burying - Friars in the Medieval City (Hardcover)
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Friars transformed the relationship of the church to laymen by
taking religion outside to public and domestic spaces. Mendicant
commitment to apostolic poverty bound friars to donors in an
exchange of donations in return for intercessory prayers and
burial: association with friars was believed to reduce the
suffering of purgatory. Mendicant convents became urban cemeteries,
warehouses filled with family tombs, flags, shields, and private
altars. As mendicants became progressively institutionalized and
sought legitimacy, friars adopted the architectural structures of
monasticism: chapter houses, cloisters, dormitories, and
refectories. They also created piazzas for preaching and burying
outside their churches. Construction depended on assembling
adequate funding from communes, confraternities, and private
individuals; it was also sometimes supported by the expropriation
of property from heretics. Because of irregular funding,
construction was episodic, with substantial changes in scale and
design. Choir screens served as temporary west facades while funds
were raised for completion. This is the first book to analyze the
friars' influence on the growth and transformation of medieval
buildings and urban spaces.
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