Commerce avec dame Pauvrete

THE relationship between the mendicant Orders and their urban environment has been the subject of intense study for some time; publications relating to convents in a number of European towns of different sizes are available and the emerging picture is being ever more refined as further case-studies appear. Although it is possible to apply standardised sets of questions in an investigation of the mendicants’ impact on towns and urban society from the thirteenth century onwards and many structural parallels have become visible, it is also striking to see that the differences between urban centres appear to give each case a unique quality. This book represents an important addition to a discipline which combines the study of religious Orders and popular piety with the assessment of social and economic change. However, Bertrand's book is not just a study of mendicants in an urban context. The author has taken great care to analyse their legal ties and obligations, carefully searching the documents emanating from these relationships, and thereby providing a journey into the law of property holding in medieval Liège, an aspect which perhaps ought to have been given greater attention in previous studies of the subject

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