The Poor and the Perfect: The Rise of Learning in the Franciscan Order, 1209-1310 - Softcover

Senocak, Neslihan

 
9781501735875: The Poor and the Perfect: The Rise of Learning in the Franciscan Order, 1209-1310
Softcover
ISBN 10: 150173587X ISBN 13: 9781501735875
Verlag: CORNELL UNIV PR, 2019

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One of the enduring ironies of medieval history is the fact that a group of Italian lay penitents, begging in sackcloths, led by a man who called himself simple and ignorant, turned in a short time into a very popular and respectable order, featuring cardinals and university professors among its ranks. Within a century of its foundation, the Order of Friars Minor could claim hundreds of permanent houses, schools, and libraries across Europe; indeed, alongside the Dominicans, they attracted the best minds and produced many outstanding scholars who were at the forefront of Western philosophical and religious thought.

In The Poor and the Perfect, Neslihan Senocak provides a grand narrative of this fascinating story in which the quintessential Franciscan virtue of simplicity gradually lost its place to learning, while studying came to be considered an integral part of evangelical perfection. Not surprisingly, turmoil accompanied this rise of learning in Francis's order. Senocak shows how a constant emphasis on humility was unable to prevent the creation within the Order of a culture that increasingly saw education as a means to acquire prestige and domination. The damage to the diversity and equality among the early Franciscan community proved to be irreparable. But the consequences of this transformation went far beyond the Order: it contributed to a paradigm shift in the relationship between the clergy and the schools and eventually led to the association of learning with sanctity in the medieval world. As Senocak demonstrates, this episode of Franciscan history is a microhistory of the rise of learning in the West.

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Neslihan Senocak is Associate Professor of History at Columbia University.

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Verlag
CORNELL UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
150173587X
ISBN 13 
9781501735875
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294
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