The Franciscans in Medieval Bury St Edmunds

Between 1233 and 1263 Franciscan friars engaged in a fierce confrontation with one of the most powerful abbeys in western Christendom, St Edmunds Abbey. Bringing together the documents that describe the sometimes violent and destructive conflict, which was litigated in both the royal court and the papal curia, this volume traces the history of the Franciscan presence at Bury St Edmunds both before and after the friars established a permanent home at Babwell Fen outside the town's North Gate in 1265. The controversy created by the arrival of mendicant friars was one of the major religious events of thirteenth-century Europe; the events in Bury are the best evidenced in England, and among the most richly documented mendicant-monastic conflicts in Europe. The volume includes documents produced by the monks of St Edmunds, the royal chancery, the papal curia and the friars themselves, chronicling a mendicant community that continued to challenge and disrupt the authority of the Abbey over Bury St Edmunds.

General

Imprint:	Boydell & Brewer
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Suffolk Charters
Release date:	November 2023
First published:	2023
Editors:	Francis Young
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-1-83765-101-6
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	1-83765-101-9
Barcode:	9781837651016

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