Mendicants on the Margins - by Malgorzata Krasnodę & bska-d'Aughton & Anne-Julie LaFaye (Hardcover)

About the Book

Mendicant orders of friars were a powerful religious movement devoted to poverty and preaching; they emerged in the early thirteenth century during the time of rapid urbanisation in western Europe and in the context of Church reforms. In 2018 a group of international scholars gathered at University College Cork to address the topic of marginalities in the current studies on mendicantism, and the volume is an outcome of that symposium. The ten essays in the collection investigate geographical, social and historiographical marginalities with regard to mendicant orders. The contributors represent disciplines of archaeology, art history, history, Irish and gender studies, with their topics geographically spanning across Europe. This thematically focused volume combines a variety of approaches and disciplines to create makes a valuable contribution to the field of mendicant studies.

Book Synopsis

Mendicant orders of friars were a powerful religious movement devoted to poverty and preaching; they emerged in the early thirteenth century during the time of rapid urbanisation in western Europe and in the context of Church reforms. In 2018 a group of international scholars gathered at University College Cork to address the topic of marginalities in the current studies on mendicantism, and the volume is an outcome of that symposium. The ten essays in the collection investigate geographical, social and historiographical marginalities with regard to mendicant orders. The contributors represent disciplines of archaeology, art history, history, Irish and gender studies, with their topics geographically spanning across Europe. This thematically focused volume combines a variety of approaches and disciplines to create makes a valuable contribution to the field of mendicant studies.

Review Quotes

"...thematic coherence across the volume is outstanding. A further strength commonly shared across the different chapters is that each very accessibly presents material from less well-known historiographical traditions or geographical margins, without assuming prior knowledge from the reader. This is indeed a crucial feature for a volume that aims to address margins: to break down historiographical and linguistic boundaries, allowing a wider audience to engage...one of the main qualities of this volume: it invites scholars to reflect more attentively on margins and marginalities in the study of mendicant orders, concerning which this reviewer learned a great deal.--Marianne P. Ritsema van Eck, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam "Irish Theological Quarterly"