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The Making of Medieval Antifraternalism - Polemic, Violence, Deviance, and Remembrance (Hardcover)
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The Making of Medieval Antifraternalism - Polemic, Violence, Deviance, and Remembrance (Hardcover)
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The mendicant orders-Augustinians, Carmelites, Dominicans,
Franciscans, and several other groups-spread across Europe apace
from the early thirteenth century, profoundly influencing numerous
aspect of medieval life. But alongside their tremendous success,
their members (friars) also encountered derision, scorn, and even
violence. Such opposition, generally known as antifraternalism, is
often seen as an ecclesiastical in-house affair or an ideological
response to the brethren's laxity: both cases registering a moral
decline symptomatic of a decadent church. Challenging the accuracy
of these views, Geltner contends that the phenomenon exhibits a
breadth of scope that on the one hand pushes it far beyond its
accustomed boundaries, and on the other supports only tenuous links
with Reformation or modern forms of anticlericalism. Drawing from
numerous sources, from theological treatises to poetry and criminal
court records, Guy Geltner shows that people from all walks of life
lambasted and occasionally assaulted the brethren, orchestrating
detailed scenes of urban violence in the process. Their myriad
motivations and diverse goals preclude us from associating
antifraternalism with any one ideology or agenda, let alone allow
us to brand many of its proponents as religious reformers. At the
same time, he demonstrates the friars' active role in forging a
medieval antifraternal tradition, not only by deviating from their
founders' paths to varying degrees, but also by chronicling their
suffering inter fideles and thus incorporating it into the orders'
identity as the vanguard of Christianity. In doing so, Geltner
illuminates a major chapter in Europe's social, urban, and
religious history.
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