Genre de document:
Article
Auteur/éditeur:
Thomas O'Brien
 
Standard: O'Brien, Thomas [Thomas O'Brien]
Titre:
Options for the poor in twelfth and thirteenth-century Europe

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Revue:
Horizons : the journal of the College Theology Society
Genre de document:
31
Fascicule:
2
Année de parution:
2004
Pages:
302-321
Sujets:
Franciscains - Conception de pauvreté - 1200-1300
Humiliates
Mouvements de pauvreté - Moyen Age
Pauvreté - Conception vaudoise - 1100-1300
Pauvreté volontaire

Résumé/commentaire:

 ABSTRACT

This essay uses the lens of the "preferential option for the poor" to examine the unprecedented turn to poverty by religious movements in late twelfth and early thirteenth-century Western Europe. Three movements are selected from the many and various movements espousing poverty: the Humiliati, the Waldensians, and the Franciscans. The Humiliati developed a communal lifestyle that, in key ways, reflected the emerging urban working class. The Waldensians embraced a radical poverty that rejected all forms of property, but they were progressively marginalized from Catholicism and eventually became targets of the Inquisition. The Franciscans adopted a very similar sort of radical poverty, but their communities ultimately would be assimilated into mainstream Catholicism. The essay places these movements into a dialogue with the contemporary notion of the "preferential option for the poor" in order to discover the ways they might inform and illuminate one another.