C.H. Lawrence is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at Royal Holloway, University of London. His books include St Edmund of Abingdon, The English Church and the Papacy in the Middle Ages, Medieval Monasticism, The Life of St Edmund by Matthew Paris (ed.) and The Letters of Adam Marsh.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviations used in the footnotesPreface to the New Edition Chapter 1 The Medieval Church in CrisisChapter 2 St Francis of Assisi and the Origins of the Friars MinorChapter 3 The Growth of the Friars Minor, Crisis and ChangeChapter 4 St Dominic and the Order of Friars PreachersChapter 5 New BrethrenChapter 6 The Mission to the TownsChapter 7 The Capture of the SchoolsChapter 8 The Complaint of the ClergyChapter 9 In the Houses of KingsChapter 10 In the Service of the PapacyChapter 11 Afar unto the GentilesEpilogue: Loss and GainBibliographyIndex

C.H. Lawrence is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at Royal Holloway, University of London. His books include St Edmund of Abingdon, The English Church and the Papacy in the Middle Ages, Medieval Monasticism, The Life of St Edmund by Matthew Paris (ed.) and The Letters of Adam Marsh.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviations used in the footnotesPreface to the New Edition Chapter 1 The Medieval Church in CrisisChapter 2 St Francis of Assisi and the Origins of the Friars MinorChapter 3 The Growth of the Friars Minor, Crisis and ChangeChapter 4 St Dominic and the Order of Friars PreachersChapter 5 New BrethrenChapter 6 The Mission to the TownsChapter 7 The Capture of the SchoolsChapter 8 The Complaint of the ClergyChapter 9 In the Houses of KingsChapter 10 In the Service of the PapacyChapter 11 Afar unto the GentilesEpilogue: Loss and GainBibliographyIndex

C.H. Lawrence is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at Royal Holloway, University of London. His books include St Edmund of Abingdon, The English Church and the Papacy in the Middle Ages, Medieval Monasticism, The Life of St Edmund by Matthew Paris (ed.) and The Letters of Adam Marsh.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviations used in the footnotesPreface to the New Edition Chapter 1 The Medieval Church in CrisisChapter 2 St Francis of Assisi and the Origins of the Friars MinorChapter 3 The Growth of the Friars Minor, Crisis and ChangeChapter 4 St Dominic and the Order of Friars PreachersChapter 5 New BrethrenChapter 6 The Mission to the TownsChapter 7 The Capture of the SchoolsChapter 8 The Complaint of the ClergyChapter 9 In the Houses of KingsChapter 10 In the Service of the PapacyChapter 11 Afar unto the GentilesEpilogue: Loss and GainBibliographyIndex