Descrizione
Sommario
This article investigates the involvement of the medieval secular Franciscan Third Order in hospital work between Umbria and the Marches. The results are rather scarce, since such charitable activities were mostly supervised or carried out by individual members of the Third Order fraternities, by communities which followed some Franciscan inspiration without a juridical link with the First Order, or by confraternities of non-Franciscan origin which were, nevertheless, attached to local friaries of the First Order. The cases under scrutiny are situated, among other places, in Città di Castello, Colfiorito, Foligno and Spoleto. The author concludes his work by relating how in the first half of the 15th century, some Third Order Regular communities took on responsibility for hospitals. Among these are also groups of Clareni in search of their juridical acceptance within the Church and the Franciscan movement.
Recensioni
Ancora non ci sono recensioni.