The Origin, Development, and Refinement of Medieval Religious Mendicancies

Contents......Page 6
Notes on Contributors......Page 8
D.S. Prudlo, Introduction......Page 12
Section I. The Origins and Foundation of Mendicancy......Page 20
A. Thompson, O.P., Chapter One. The Origins of Religious Mendicancy in Medieval Europe......Page 22
A.J. Lappin, Chapter Two. From Osma to Bologna, from Canons to Friars, from the Preaching to the Preachers: The Dominican Path Towards Mendicancy.......Page 50
J. Mueller, Chapter Three. Female Mendicancy: A Failed Experiment? The Case of Saint Clare of Assisi......Page 78
Section II. The Development and Articulation of Mendicant Ideals......Page 102
D.S. Prudlo, Chapter Four. Mendicancy among the Early Saints of the Begging Orders......Page 104
H.J. Grieco, Chapter Five. Pastoral Care, Inquisition, and Mendicancy in the Medieval Franciscan Order......Page 136
A. Traver, Chapter Six. The Forging of an Intellectual Defense of Mendicancy in the Medieval University......Page 176
D. Foote, Chapter Seven. Mendicants and the Italian Communes in Salimbene’s Cronaca......Page 216
Section III. The Reception and Appropriation of Mendicancy in the Middle Ages......Page 258
A. Rigon, Chapter Eight. Mendicant Orders and the Reality of Economic Life in Italy in the Middle Ages......Page 260
D. Burr, Chapter Nine. Effects of the Spiritual Franciscan Controversy on the Mendicant Ideal......Page 296
P.R. Bart, Chapter Ten. The Hidden Life of the Friars: The Mendicant Orders in the Work of Walter Hilton, William Langland, Geoffrey Chaucer, and their Literary World......Page 326
S. Nocentini, Chapter Eleven. Mendicancy in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth centuries: “Ubi necessitas non urgeat”: The Preachers Facing the “refrigescens caritas”......Page 354
Select Bibliography......Page 382
Index......Page 392