The Franciscans in the Middle Ages
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9798071 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeremy Catto (Thiel College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 122 |
| Issue | 499 |
| Pages | 1384-1385 |
| Publication date | 2007-12-21 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The English Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8266 • E-ISSN: 1477-4534 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ehr/cem370 |
| OpenAlex | W2063045012 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The early history of the Franciscan Order has always attracted controversy, and therefore historians, from the first lives of St Francis onwards: the claim made for it by its wilder enthusiasts but half-believed by many others, that it marked a third dispensation, superseding the Old and New Testaments, ensured that it would be so. Michael Robson has undertaken the task of presenting a sober and unbiased description which incorporates the results of scholarship since John Moorman's account in 1968. In this he has succeeded, with a clear narrative of St Francis himself, the early establishment of the Order, its growth, evangelical activities, missions and intellectual achievements, its role in the Church at large, the crisis of the Order when John XXII withdrew recognition of its absolute poverty and its eventual break-up in 1517. Robson has managed to incorporate the conclusions of an extremely wide body of recent scholarship, not always wholly digested, as his idiosyncratic rendering of some names indicates: Apuglia, Magna Graeca, Albarnoz (for Albornoz) and the curious feminisation Bernardine of Siena
Art · Literature · Narrative · Order (exchange · Political science · Poverty · Scholarship · Sociology · Classics · Early Modern Women Writers · History · Law · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
| Citations per year | 0.21 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2023 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |