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The Friars: The Impact of the Early Mendicant Movement on Western Society (The Medieval World) (Textbook Binding)
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Textbook Binding: 245 pages
Publisher: Longman (14 Mar 1994)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0582056322
ISBN-13: 978-0582056329
Product Dimensions: 21.5 x 14 x 1.5 cm
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Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,110,718 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'What Hugh Lawrence sets out to do, he does with remarkable lucidity...a very readable, reliable and succinct study...' Journal of Ecclesiastical History

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A study of the origins, growth and influence of the mendicant preaching orders that arose in the early thirteenth century around the charismatic figures of St Francis and St Dominic, to help the medieval Church confront the challenge of an increasingly confident, secular and independent-minded age. Lawrence's approach is primarily social and political: he shows how papal patronage turned the armies of holy beggars into a disciplined force for orthodoxy, and he analyses the extraordinary impact they had on Western society in their first hundred years of existence.