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Mendicants, Military Orders, and Regionalism in Medieval Europe

Jurgen Sarnowsky editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:28th Jun '99

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The new religious orders of the 12th and 13th centuries - the military orders and the mendicants - were established as international orders. Yet they were inevitably dependent on regional and local conditions for recruitment and finance, and could not escape involvement in the power structures, whether secular or ecclesiastical, of the areas in which they were based. This book examines the tensions that arose from this, and how they evolved and were manifested. It looks in particular at the orders’ early expansion, and at the special conditions that applied in frontier regions, notably those in Northern and Central Europe which have typically been less well studied.

'...the bibliography...takes up a good thirty pages and therefore represents an indispensable tool for anyone who wishes to approach the study of the religious orders in the Middle Ages.' Studi Medievali

ISBN: 9781840146233

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 453g

348 pages