A History of the Franciscan Order : From Its Origins to the Year 1517
J.R.H. Moorman, "A History of the Franciscan Order : From Its Origins to the Year 1517"
Oxford at the Clarendon Press; First Edition edition | 1998 | ISBN: 0198264259 | PDF | 656 pages | 101.8 MB
Oxford at the Clarendon Press; First Edition edition | 1998 | ISBN: 0198264259 | PDF | 656 pages | 101.8 MB
More than twenty years after this book was first published, it is considered by scholars to be the definitive history of the early Franciscan Movement. Moorman tells the story of the friars in the first three centuries of their existence. He highlights the impact they had on society, records the problems and disagreements within the order and indicates their contribution to the life of the world and of the Church.