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The Origin, Development, and Refinement of Medieval Religious Mendicancies (Hardcover)
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The Origin, Development, and Refinement of Medieval Religious Mendicancies (Hardcover)
Series: Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 24
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The nature of mendicancy as it developed among various religious
orders during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries is the
subject of considerable debate. In spite of this, little in the way
of a comprehensive review of the phenomenon as a whole has been
undertaken. What has been done has either been order-specific (with
an emphasis on the Friars Minor) or has focused on points of
special conflict regarding the mendicant ideal (University debates,
Spiritual Franciscans). Little work exists on the roots of
mendicancy, or on the creative ways in which mendicancy was
understood (and deprecated) in various quarters. Few studies try to
bring together both the theory and practice of religious
mendicancy. The effect that events had in molding and changing the
mendicant ideal is also often neglected, as are the ways in which
it was independently and creatively appropriated by individuals and
groups. Needless to say, all of this is strange for a movement that
most are content to label Mendicant. Perhaps it may even be the
case that mendicancy is not useful as a descriptive concept. The
purpose and intention of this handbook is to offer an analysis of
the term 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. The present
work is divided into three main sections, I) The origins and
foundations of medieval mendicancy, II) The development and
articulation of mendicant ideals, III)The reception and
appropriation of mendicancy in the middle ages. The chapters herein
serve as a solid point of departure for advanced students and
scholars.
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