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Friars --- Monasticism and religious orders --- Ordres mendiants --- Monachisme et ordres religieux --- History --- Histoire --- Anthony, --- Italy --- Italie --- Church history --- Histoire religieuse
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"Ever since the time of Francis of Assisi, a commitment to voluntary poverty has been a controversial aspect of religious life. This volume explores the interaction between poverty and religious devotion in the mendicant orders between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. While poverty has often been perceived more as a Franciscan than as a Dominican emphasis, this volume considers its role within a broader movement of evangelical renewal associated with the mendicant transformation of religious life. At a time of increased economic prosperity, reformers within the Church sought new ways of encouraging identification with the person of Christ. This volume considers the paradoxical tension between voluntary poverty as a way of emulating Christ and involuntary poverty as situation demanding a response from those with the means to help the poor. Drawing on history, literature and visual arts, it explores how the mendicant orders continued to transform religious life into the time of the renaissance. The papers in this volume are organised under three headings, prefaced with an introductory essay by the editors: Poverty and the Rule of Francis, exploring the interpretation of poverty in the Franciscan Order; Devotional Cultures, considering aspects of devotional life fostered by mendicant religious communities, Franciscan, Augustinian and Dominican; Preaching Poverty, on the way poverty was promoted and practiced within the Dominican Order in the later Middle Ages and Renaissance." --
Monastic and religious life --- Poverty --- History --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Franciscans --- Dominicans --- Spiritual life. --- Monastic and religious life - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500. --- Poverty - Religious aspects - Christianity. --- Ordres mendiants
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The eleven interdisciplinary essays that comprise this book complement and expand upon a significant body of literature on the history of the Franciscan and Dominican orders during the later Middle Ages and the early modern period. They elucidate and examine the ways in which mendicant friars established, sustained, and transformed their institutional identities and shaped the devotional experiences of the faithful to whom they ministered via verbal and visual culture. Taking primary texts and images as their point of departure, these essays break new scholarly ground by revising previous assumptions regarding mendicant life and actions and analysing sites, works of art, and texts that either have been neglected in the existing literature or that have not been examined through the lens of current methodologies such as sermon studies, ritual, gender, and cross-cultural interactions. Indeed, the varied methods and subjects of these essays demonstrate there is still much to be learned about the mendicant orders and the ways and spaces in which they operated and presented themselves on the local, regional, and global stages.
Christian religious orders --- Christian church history --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Italy --- Begging --- Church history --- Mendicité --- Eglise --- History --- Histoire --- Bettelorden. --- Church history. --- Kultur. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Religious aspects. --- Italien. --- Mendicité --- Christianity --- Begging - Religious aspects --- Begging - History - Religious aspects - Christianity --- Ordres mendiants
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