Early Franciscan government : Elias to Bonaventure
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Early Franciscan government : Elias to Bonaventure
（Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought / edited by G.G. Coulton, New series ; v. 7）
Cambridge University Press, 2004, c1959
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"First published 1959"--T.p. verso
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The early historians of the Franciscan order traced the causes of the troubles of the order in their time to Elias, a contemporary and friend of St Francis and an early Minister General. Elias was blamed for opening the way to all relaxations of discipline and disregard of the founder's teaching, and all conflicts and persecutions. Mrs Brooke shows that responsibility cannot be placed on one man, but on many of the early friars. She gives a more historical account of Elias, showing that he was never as dominant a figure as has been supposed. The early conflicts of the order are shown to have been more complex, more interesting and more probable than the fourteenth-century controversialists would allow. The second part of the book describes the achievements of Elias's successors as Minister General, and the important laws they passed. Mrs Brooke has been able to reconstruct the early constitutions, now lost, in greater detail than has previously been attempted.
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- The Minister General, 1209-74
- 1. Introduction: the narrative sources for the History of Elias
- 2. Hugolino and the Ministers of St Francis
- 3. The character and significance of John Parenti
- 4. Elias' generalate, 1232-9
- 5. Epilogue
- 6. Prologue
- 7. Albert of Pisa
- 8. Haymo of Faversham
- 9. The constitutions of 1239-60
- Appendices
- Index.
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