GERMAN

Religion und Disziplin: Selbstdeutung und Weltordnung im frühen deutschen Franziskanertum (Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte)

By Thomas Ertl

Book information

Publisher
Walter de Gruyter
Year
2006
ISBN
311018544X, 9783110185447
Open Library ID
OL22732343M
Language
german
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1499300 bytes)
Series
Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte
Edition
1
Pages
496\496
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

This monograph takes the example of the German Franciscans to examine the role of mendicant friars in social change in the late Middle Ages. In the later Middle Ages, the mendicant friars strove to regulate a society in a process of radical change. This happened through a combination of apparently contradictory developments – the Christianisation of individual liberties on the one hand, and the simultaneous establishment of new control mechanisms on the other. The work of the early German Franciscans presented here exemplifies the dialectics of social diversification processes that shaped Europe in the Middle Ages and later.

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