The Origin Development and Refinement of Medieval Religious Mendicancies

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The Origin Development and Refinement of Medieval Religious Mendicancies

Author	: Donald Prudlo
File Size	: 44,9 Mb
Publisher	: BRILL
Language	: English
Release Date	: 14 February 2011
ISBN	: 9789004210646
Pages	: 400 pages

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The Origin Development and Refinement of Medieval Religious Mendicancies by Donald Prudlo Book PDF Summary

The purpose and intention of this handbook is to offer an analysis of the term mendicancy and to present an up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to the phenomenon of religious mendicancy in the central and later middle ages. It provides a contextualized guide that will introduce the central issues in contemporary scholarship regarding the mendicant orders. This project approaches the controversies from a multitude of angles and unites in one volume the insights of different disciplines such as social and intellectual history, literary analysis, and theology.

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