Poverty and Devotion in Mendicant Cultures 1200-1450
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- ISBN 9781472437327
- Weight: 476g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 13 Jul 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Constant J. Mews is Professor within the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies and Director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology at Monash University, Australia.
Anna Welch (Ph.D. 2011, University of Divinity) works in the History of the Book department at State Library Victoria (Melbourne). Her first monograph is based on her doctoral research: Liturgy, Books and Franciscan Identity in Medieval Umbria (2015).
