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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Franciscan Order"”.
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Networks and narratives: the 'Liber Exemplorum' and the intellectual milieu of the Franciscan order in thirteenth-century Ireland
… is a collection of exempla written by an English Franciscan friar, who worked and lived in Ireland in the second half of the thirteenth century. The LE has been previously known only from an incomplete fourteenth-century copy of the text found in Durham Cathedral Library MS B.IV.19, but recent …
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Pope John XXII and the Franciscan ideal of absolute poverty
… investigation into Pope John XXII's view of the Franciscan poverty ideal and his reasons for rejecting the doctrine of the absolute poverty of Christ in the bull Cum inter nonnullos (1323). After establishing the state of the question in the introduction, the first two chapters situate John …
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Native Subordination Through The Franciscan Institutions During The Sixteenth Century
… Mexico, seeks to heighten the visibility of the Franciscan order in New Spain. I intend to clearly establish how the Virgin de Guadalupe’s influence on native conversions was mediated through, and controlled by, the Franciscan institutional systems between 1523 and 1572.</p> <p>Many scholars have …
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An examination of a Thirteenth-Century Treatise on the Mind/Body Dichotomy: Jean de La Rochelle on the Soul and its Powers
… a philosopher and theologian of the Franciscan Order. The importance of the text lies in the fact that it was written at the very early stages of the changes that took place as a consequence of the new Greek and Arabic sources becoming available at this time. Of particular interest in …
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Santa Caterina at Galatina: Late Medieval Art in Salento at the frontier of the Latin and Orthodox Worlds
The focus of this dissertation is the Franciscan church of Santa Caterina (ca.1385-1391) at Galatina in the Salento, an area of Italy characterised by the presence of Greek language and/or rite communities. Scholars have described it as an emblematically ‘Latin’ church, decorated with ‘Giottesque’ …
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Performing piety: preachers and players in East Anglia, 1400-1520
“Performing Piety” examines the interdependent relationship between medieval sermons and plays in late-medieval East Anglia, arguing that the mutual use of thematic divisions and exempla (moral tales) evinces the reciprocal interaction of preacher and playwright. By focusing on these common …