Preaching, building, and burying : friars in the Medieval city / Caroline Bruzelius.
Preaching, building, and burying : friars in the Medieval city / Caroline Bruzelius.
Preaching, building, and burying : friars in the Medieval city / Caroline Bruzelius.
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New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]
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GQ 2015/540
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English
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Physical content
xi, 255 pages : color illustrations, plans ; 26 cm.
Content type
text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction: friars in the city -- The invention of a new type of clergy: structures, institutions, ideologies, and space -- The process of institutionalization: Dominic, Francis, and the early buildings -- Mendicant construction strategies -- Into the city -- Money, social practice, and mendicant...
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New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]
Place of Publication
Connecticut
Date Published
[2014]
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"Friars transformed the relationship of the church to laymen by taking religion outside to public and domestic spaces. Mendicant commitment to apostolic poverty bound friars to donors in an exchange of donations in return for intercessory prayers and burial: association with friars was believed to reduce the suffering of purgatory. Mendicant conven...
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Preaching, building, and burying : friars in the Medieval city / Caroline Bruzelius.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-243) and index.
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GQ 2015/540
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74VKOlyEJj5O
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKOlyEJj5O
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ISBN
0300203845 (hardback)
9780300203844 (hardback)
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726.70940902
MMS ID
991022668429702626
