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20 juillet 2022
- doi: 10.4000/books.efr.26105
- isbn: 9782728315338
- eisbn: 9782728315345
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Caroline Bruzelius, « Introduction », Publications de l’École française de Rome, ID : 10.4000/books.efr.26105
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In the early years of the thirteenth century, saints Francis and Dominic introduced new interpretations of religious life that focused on individual and institutional poverty in order to more effectively engage with the public through preaching and conversion. Their followers, Franciscan and Dominican friars (also called Friars Minor and Friars Preachers) are identified as friars or mendicants to distinguish them from monks or priests. Francis and his followers were initially laymen who adopt...