A History of Franciscan Education (C. 1210-1517) (Transformation of the Roman World,)

A History of Franciscan Education (C. 1210-1517) (Transformation of the Roman World,)

Bert Roest

Language: English

Pages: 406

ISBN: 9004117393

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


The history of education within the Franciscan order during the medieval period is presented here in a new light. This comprehensive volume offers a new synthesis of Franciscan education, showing the dynamic development of the Franciscan school network, between the early thirteenth and the early sixteenth century. The organisation of study houses throughout the many Franciscan order provinces are discussed, as well as the relationship between these Franciscan study houses and the medieval universities and the various study programs offered to Franciscan students. Separate chapters are devoted to related issues, such as library formation, the instruction of homiletic techniques, and the formation of Franciscan theological schools of thought. The work emphasises the dynamics of the Franciscan school network and the importance of extra-curricular activities in the schools at convent and custodial levels.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

early Franciscan degree studia was found in Cambridge. Cambridge University was a fairly young institution when the Franciscan friars arrived there in 1225; having come into being in 1209, as a result of the dispersion of the teachers from Oxford University.85 Between 1225 and 1238, the friars first occupied half of a house that once belonged to a Jew 81 LITTLE, 1938, 205-209. The 1340 Assisi general chapter, for instance, permitted the province of St. Francis to send one student to Oxford ‘de

until 1360, by means of a papal bull. In July 1364, the faculty was finally inaugurated. Its core was formed by the existing mendicant studia: those of the Dominicans, the Augustinians, the Franciscans, and the Servites of St. Mary. They filled most of the faculty chairs of theology, and their regent and non-regent masters formed the core of the Collegium Facultatis Theologiae, which was responsible for the proper proceeding of the graduate program and the accompanying public solemnities. The

de Paris; De sainte église; La descorde de l’Université et des Jacobins; Li 198 199 studia, students, lectors, and programs 57 With the publication of his Liber de Antichristo and the Tractatus, Guillaume clearly overplayed his hands. Mendicant spokesmen such as Tommaso d’Aquino and the Franciscan friars Thomas of York and Bonaventura were quick to denounce Guillaume de St. Amour’s own works as an attack on the Papacy and on genuine evangelical ideals.201 The Pope reacted with strong

Cismontan and Ultramontan provinces. In the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries comparable rules were in force for other studia generalia on the continent.345 For Oxford and Cambridge somewhat different conditions appeared in the 1336 constitutions of Benedict XII. They ruled that every third year the minister general and the general chapter could select candidates from outside the English province (alternately from the Ultramontan and from the Cismontan provinces). The other two years the

VII.D.29 ff 21r-74v. 128 chapter two 1288), who lectured as secundarius in Cologne or Magdeburg before he became lector in Basel and Mainz, actually is an abbreviation of Bonaventura’s commentary.37 The same holds for the Sentences commentaries of Johan von Erfurt (who studied in Bologna around 1309, to become lector at Erfurt thereafter), 38 the popular Sentences abbreviations of Gherardo da Prato and John de Fonte,39 and the Sentences commentary of Giacomo da Tresanti, who lectured at the

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