Western Civilization I / Unit 11 WC1 1026 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Francis, Dominic, and the Mendicant Orders
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The idea
Francis of Assisi founded the Franciscans on absolute poverty and preaching in towns; Dominic founded the Dominicans to preach against heresy with learning. Mendicants begged rather than owned, lived among townspeople, and staffed the Inquisition and the universities.
In practice
Friars against Cathars; Aquinas a Dominican.
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