The Origin, Development, and Refinement of Medieval Religious Mendicancies

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.

Year

2011

Language

English

Series

Brill's companions to the Christian tradition -- v. 24

Publisher

Brill

Editions

1

Pages

382

ISBN

9789004181809

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