I have heard of many things that redound to the credit of the priesthood, but the most notable matter that occurs to me now is the devotion one of the
mendicant orders showed during the prevalence of the cholera last year.
What of the rise of the
mendicant orders? A case can be made that the most important changes in the 2,000 years of our church's history were the direct result of St.
They discuss governmental, judicial, religious, and familial sources; the estini; urban planning and physical structures; public health; the regulation of food and sumptuary laws; economy and demography; bankers, financial institutions, and politics; civic institutions; conflicts; government; the ruling classes; the church, civic religion, and civic identity; confraternities and civil society;
mendicant orders and the repression of heresy; the university; vernacular language and literature; literary culture; miniaturists, painters, and goldsmiths; and art and patronage.
Hawkins gives us a vivid reconstruction of the experience of religious life in Florence, from annual baptisms in San Giovanni, to the typical parish chapel serving thirty or forty families, the naves of churches used more like public squares, and the impact of papal reforms,
mendicant orders and lay confraternities on religious devotion.
Oertel goes on to discuss the intensification of the cult through the establishment of secular cathedral chapters and the arrival of the
mendicant orders in Sweden, of which the Dominicans were especially influential.
Jesuits, for example, are not friars, like the four
mendicant orders of men: Augustinians (including Augustinian Recollects), Carmelites, Dominicans, and Franciscans.
The history of the admission and permanence of
Mendicant Orders in the University represents a facet of the history of tensions and accommodations in a new society based on new values and recomposed from new orders.
While it would have been unheard of in any case for a woman to earn a doctorate, another development also worked to her exclusion: university theological faculties, many run by the new
Mendicant orders (Franciscans and Dominicans), also required ordination.
While the two
mendicant orders shared fundamental goals in common (leading on occasion to fraternal infighting), Cannon also brings out differences of emphasis.
The book is divided into two parts: a chronological survey in three chapters tracing the development of the
mendicant orders in Ireland, and a consideration in seven chapters of discrete aspects of the mendicants' lives and ministries.
Both scholars argued that the women's religious movement was almost globally reformed within the ranks of the fledgling
mendicant orders and the beguine movement.
MS 3, folios 238-240 (see above) draws upon it but does not mention the founding of the
mendicant orders. The original Chronicon does, however; see Martinus Polonus, Martini Oppaviensis Chronicon Pontificum et Imperatorum, ed.