Origin, Development, and Refinement of Medieval Religious Mendicancies

Donald S. Prudlo (Ph.D., University of Virginia, 2004) is assistant professor of Ancient and Medieval History at Jacksonville State University in Alabama. His specialization is in medieval religious history and medieval Italy and his current research interests include hagiography and saints’ lives, medieval miracle stories, Church history, and the development of canonization. His first book, The Martyred Inquisitor: The Life and Cult of Peter of Verona (†1252) was published by Ashgate Press in 2008.

“excellent collection” […] “those seeking an introduction to the study of mendicancy and religious poverty would do well to pick up this new volume in Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition series.” - Joe Creamer, Fordham University, in: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 64, No. 1 (January 2013), pp. 154-155“A distinctive and useful collection […]. It should attract a broad audience.” - Joseph P. Byrne, Belmont University, in: Church History, Vol. 81, No. 3 (September 2012), p. 679

• IntroductionDonald PrudloSection IThe Origins and Foundation of MendicancyChapter 1 - The Origins of Religious Mendicancy in Medieval EuropeAugustine ThompsonChapter 2 - From Osma to Bologna, from Canons to Friars, from the Preaching to the Preachers: the Dominican Path Towards MendicancyAnthony John LappinChapter 3 - Female Mendicancy, A Failed Experiment? The Case of Saint Clare of AssisiJoan MuellerSection IIThe development and articulation of mendicant idealsChapter 4 - Mendicancy among the Early Saints of the Begging OrdersDonald PrudloChapter 5 - Pastoral Care, Inquisition, and Mendicancy in the Medieval Franciscan OrderHolly GriecoChapter 6 - The forging of an intellectual defense of Mendicancy in the Medieval UniversityAndrew TraverChapter 7 - Mendicants and the Italian Communes in Salimbene’s Cronaca David FooteSection III – The reception and appropriation of mendicancy in the middle agesChapter 8 - Mendicant Orders and the Reality of Economic Life in Italy in the Middle AgesAntonio RigonChapter 9 - Effects of the Spiritual Franciscan Controversy on the Mendicant IdealDavid BurrChapter 10 - The Hidden Life of the Friars: The Mendicant Orders in the Work of Walter Hilton, William Langland, Geoffrey Chaucer, and their Literary WorldPat Bart Chapter 11 - Mendicancy in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth centuries: “Ubi necessitas non urgeat”: the Preachers Facing the “refrigescens caritas”Silvia NocentiniSelect bibliographyIndex