Sigbjørn Olsen Sønnesyn, William of Malmesbury and the Ethics of History, Woodbridge, Boydell, 2012 ; 1 vol., 302 p. ISBN : 9781843837091. Prix : GBP 60
The Confraternities of Mendicant Orders in the Middle Ages : A History Waiting to Be WrittenThe confraternities have a bad reputation. Their spiritual purpose was ill defined, lying somewhere between requests for intercession, obituary commemorations, and confraternities. In the hands of the mendica...
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2016
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| Acesso em linha: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Resumo: | The Confraternities of Mendicant Orders in the Middle Ages : A History Waiting to Be WrittenThe confraternities have a bad reputation. Their spiritual purpose was ill defined, lying somewhere between requests for intercession, obituary commemorations, and confraternities. In the hands of the mendicants, they seem to have been what indulgences had become in the hands of bishops and the papacy at the end of the Middle Ages : an enticement used without restraint to extort funds from the faithful by holding out the possibility of almost instant access to Paradise. In return, they would seem to have suffered the same fate as indulgences, gradually voided of substance and condemned, even before Luther, as glaring proof of the Roman Church’s corruption. Many a summary keeps to this fairly unflattering picture, or makes no mention of them. This paper reveals the reasons behind researchers’ lack of interest in these singular associations. Next, it shows the important landmarks made by works devoted to monastic affiliations, and finally, it shows the promising perspectives offered by the surprisingly extensive Hungarian literature on the confraternities of mendicant orders between the 13th and 16th centuries. |
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