Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
- Part One The Old Orders, 1216—1340
- Part Two The Friars, 1216–1340
- Chap. XI The Friars Minor
- Chap. XII The coming of the Minors
- Chap. XIII The order of Preachers
- Chap. XIV The Preachers in England
- Chap. XV The evolution of the Franciscan ideal
- Chap. XVI The apostolic work of the Friars
- Chap. XVII Carmelites, Austin Hermits and lesser orders
- Chap. XVIII The early English Franciscan scholastics
- Chap. XIX Doctrinal and moral controversies: Kilwardby and Pecham
- Chap. XX The Friars from the Council of Lyons to William of Ockham (1272–1340)
- Part Three The Monasteries and their World
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
Chap. XIX - Doctrinal and moral controversies: Kilwardby and Pecham
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
- Part One The Old Orders, 1216—1340
- Part Two The Friars, 1216–1340
- Chap. XI The Friars Minor
- Chap. XII The coming of the Minors
- Chap. XIII The order of Preachers
- Chap. XIV The Preachers in England
- Chap. XV The evolution of the Franciscan ideal
- Chap. XVI The apostolic work of the Friars
- Chap. XVII Carmelites, Austin Hermits and lesser orders
- Chap. XVIII The early English Franciscan scholastics
- Chap. XIX Doctrinal and moral controversies: Kilwardby and Pecham
- Chap. XX The Friars from the Council of Lyons to William of Ockham (1272–1340)
- Part Three The Monasteries and their World
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The Friars Minor and Preachers, the double birth of a single hour, had at first taken paths that did not cross, and the mutual affection and admiration of Francis and Dominic had been shared by their first disciples. As we have seen, the Preachers at London and Oxford gave ready hospitality to the first Minors, and Grosseteste laid it down as a principle that the establishment of both orders in a city drew down a double blessing. When, however, each had adopted from the other an essential element in its life—when the Dominicans had become mendicants and the Franciscans students—the similarity of occupation and interests foreboded rivalry between Jacob and Esau, and significant records appear in the acts of general chapter of the Preachers enjoining mutual charity and endeavouring to forestall friction by submitting cases of difference to the judgement of arbitrators of the other habit. Community of interest, indeed, while it ultimately led to collision was also a cause of delaying rivalries, for the violent attacks on the mendicants in France closed the ranks of the friars, and all alike were shielded by the apologetics of St Bonaventure and St Thomas. Yet even thus early a bitter opponent could liken the alliance to that of Pilate and Herod, and when the immediate danger to both lessened, disputes broke out between the two on those points precisely in which each had imitated the other.
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- Religious Orders Vol 1 , pp. 217 - 232Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1979