Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-372) and index.

The origins of religious mendicancy in medieval Europe / Augustine Thompson -- From Osma to Bologna, from canons to friars, from the preaching to the preachers : the Dominican path towards mendicancy / Anthony John Lappin -- Female mendicancy, a failed experiment? : the case of Saint Clare of Assisi / Joan Mueller -- Mendicancy among the early saints of the begging orders / Donald S. Prudlo -- Pastoral care, inquisition, and mendicancy in the medieval Franciscan Order / Holly J. Grieco -- The forging of an intellectual defense of mendicancy in the medieval university / Andrew Traver -- Mendicants and the Italian communes in Salimbene's Cronaca / David Foote -- Mendicant orders and the reality of economic life in Italy in the Middle Ages / Antonio Rigon -- Effects of the spiritual Franciscan controversy on the mendicant ideal / David Burr -- The hidden life of the friars : the mendicant orders in the work of Walter Hilton, William Langland, Geoffrey Chaucer, and their literary world / Patricia R. Bart -- Mendicancy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries : "ubi necessitas non urgeat" : the preachers facing the "refrigescens caritas" / Silvia Nocentini.

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