The friars : the impact of the early mendicant movement on Western society / by Lawrence, C. H. (Clifford Hugh), 1921-

Subjects: “…Friars Europe History.…”

The friars : the impact of the early mendicant movement on Western society / by Lawrence, C. H. (Clifford Hugh), 1921-

Subjects: “…Friars History To 1500.…”
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Friars, Soldiers, and Reformers : Hispanic Arizona and the Sonora Mission Frontier, 1767–1856 / by Kessell, John L.

Table of Contents: “…The Challenge of a Reforming Bishop, 1781-95; 8. A Quarrel Among Friars, 1795-1808; 9. "Corruption Has Come Among Us," 1808-20; 10. …”
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Friars and Jews in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

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The Rule of the Friars Minor, 1209-2009 : historical perspectives, lived realities /

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The travels and controversies of Friar Domingo Navarrete, 1616-1686.

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The origin, development, and refinement of medieval religious mendicancies

Subjects: “…Friars Europe History To 1500.…”
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The travels and controversies of Friar Domingo Navarrete, 1616-1686.

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The Guanches of Tenerife the holy image of Our Lady of Candelaria, and the Spanish conquest and settlement / by Espinosa, Alonso de, 16th cent

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Building colonial cities of God mendicant orders and urban culture in New Spain, 1570-1800 / by Melvin, Karen, Associate Professor

Table of Contents: “…Ordering cities : urban convents and friars, 1570-1810 -- Distinguishing habits : corporate and collective mendicant identities -- Serving cities : orders and their urban ministries -- Defining religions : mendicant connections and disconnections in urban society -- Loving complaints : orders and the formation of local religious culture.…”
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Defense of the mendicants / by Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274

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Taming a brood of vipers conflict and change in fourteenth-century Dominican convents / by Vargas, Michael A.

Table of Contents: “…Success and successors -- The contentious birth of a new province -- Growth, crisis and recovery -- Bad-boy friars and complicit leaders -- Friar-youths and troublesome others -- Office and official -- Challenged vows -- In defense of corporate honor.…”
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Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama : Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion / by Porter, Chloe

Table of Contents: “…Early modern English drama and visual culture -- 'In the keeping of Paulina': the unknowable image in The Winter's tale -- 'But begun for others to end': the ends of incompletion -- 'The brazen head lies broken': divine destruction in Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay -- Going unseen: invisibility and erasure in The Two merry milkmaids.…”
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Creating Clare of Assisi female Franciscan identities in later medieval Italy / by Knox, Lezlie S.

Table of Contents: “…The friars and sisters -- Clare and the Poor Sisters of San Damiano -- The Order of Saint Clare -- Beyond Clare : a Franciscan centered order -- The Clarisses and observant reform -- Writing female Franciscan identity -- Conclusion: The true daughters of Francis and Clare.…”
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The two Reformations the journey from the last days to the new world / by Oberman, Heiko Augustinus

Table of Contents: “…The gathering storm -- Luther and the via moderna: the philosophical backdrop of the reformation breakthrough -- Martin Luther: a friar in the lion's den -- Reformation: end time, modern times, future times -- From Luther to Hitler -- The controversy over images at the time of the Reformation -- Toward the recovery of the historical Calvin -- Toward a new map of Reformation Europe -- The cutting edge: the Reformation of the refugees -- Calvin's legacy: its greatness and limitations.…”
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Godless Shakespeare by Mallin, Eric Scott

Table of Contents: “…Hell -- God's bitch (Pericles) -- The promise (Friar Laurence) -- Vienna sausage : or, replacement theology (Isabella) -- Crackers (Titus) -- Pt. 2. …”
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Sisters and brothers of the common life : the Devotio Moderna and the world of the later Middle Ages / by Van Engen, John H.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The Devotio Moderna and modern history -- Converts in the Middle ages -- Conversion as a medieval form of life -- Converts in the Low Countries -- Circles of converts at Strassburg and Brussels -- Converts under suspicion : legislating against Beguines and free spirits -- Modern-day converts in the Low Countries -- The Low Countries -- Households of devout women -- Societies of devout men -- Modern-day conversion -- Suspicion and inquisition -- Suspicion of devout practices -- Charge and counter-charge in the mid-1390s -- Sisters under inquisition, 1396-1397 : Friar Eylard Schoneveld intervenes -- Resisting the inquisitor : legal tactics -- Awaiting the Bishop's decision, 1398-1401 -- From converts to communities : tertiaries, sisters, brothers, schoolboys, canons -- Tertiaries "living the common life" -- Sisters of the common life -- Brothers of the common life -- Schoolboys -- Windesheim canons and canonesses -- An option for enclosure : male canons and female tertiaries -- Inventing a communal household : goods, customs, labor, and "republican" harmony -- Living together without personal property -- House customs and personal exercises -- Obedience and humility in a voluntary community -- Labor : living from the work of their own hands -- Communal gatherings and a "republican" impulse -- Defending the modern-day Devout : expansion under scrutiny -- Women's houses and converting schoolboys : Burgher critics at Zwolle -- Friar Matthew Grabow and the Council of Constance -- The sisters and the aldermen in conflict at Deventer : the women's narrative -- Institutionalizing under scrutiny -- Proposing a theological rationale : the freedom of the "Christian religion" -- Place in society : taking on the "estate of the perfect" -- John Pupper of Goch (d. 1475) -- Gospel law and the freedom of the Christian religion -- Taking the spiritual offensive : caring for the self, examining the soul, progressing in virtue -- Reading, writing, and the lay tongue -- Exhortation in public and correction in private -- Spiritual guidance and mutual reproof -- Modern-day devotion : examining the self, making progress, experiencing peace -- Private gatherings and self-made societies in the fifteenth century -- The question of an afterlife.…”
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History of the Incas by Sarmiento de Gamboa, Pedro, 1532?-1608?

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Aquinas on Virtue : A Causal Reading / by Austin, Nicholas, 1970-

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Defenders and critics of Franciscan life essays in honor of John V. Fleming /

Table of Contents: “…Geltner -- Part III: Franciscan critics and critics of theGranciscans -- History as prophecy : Angelo Clareno's chronicle as a spiritual Franciscan apocalypse / David Burr -- Views of John XXII as a heretical pope / Patrick Nold -- Kicking the habit : the campaign against the friars in a fourteenth-century encyclopedia / Penn Szittya -- Si Sind all Glichsner : anti-fraternalism in Medieval and Renaissance German literature / Geoffrey Dipple -- Part IV: Franciscan legacies -- Imitatio francisci : the influence of Francis of Assisi on late medieval religious life / Lester K. …”
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