Many of the leading figures of the Reformation and many of their
most able opponents came from among the ranks of the Franciscan
Order. This Order became the focus of attack in a pamphlet war
waged against it in 1523 by converts to the Reformation. These
criticisms were based on arguments by Luther in his Judgement on
Monastic Vows, and the pamphlets provided an important channel for
these views. Luther's arguments were also reinforced by criticisms
of the mendicant orders drawn from medieval polemical and satirical
literature. The campaign of 1523 brought together both Reformation
and pre-Reformation anticlerical themes. In this book Geoffrey
Dipple looks at the perception of the Franciscan order in the 15th
and 16th centuries, placing the attacks firmly in the context of
late medieval inter-clerical rivalries. He looks particularly at
the anticlerical polemics of one of the primary participants -
Johann Eberlin von GA1/4nzburg - the most vocal of the Franciscan's
critics.
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