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Mendicant Friars

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | | Copyright

Mendicant Friars. Members of those orders which were forbidden to own property in common; they work or beg for their living and are not bound to one convent. In the Middle Ages their activities were carried out mainly in towns; their exemption from episcopal jurisdiction and extensive faculties for preaching and hearing confessions aroused great hostility.

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Mendicant friars

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Mendicant friars (literally, ‘begging’ brothers). Religious orders which renounced the right to own income-producing properties. The term is now largely meaningless, since most if not all of the originally mendicant orders have been given the right to own capital.

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JOHN BOWKER. "Mendicant friars." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

JOHN BOWKER. "Mendicant friars." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O101-Mendicantfriars.html

JOHN BOWKER. "Mendicant friars." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O101-Mendicantfriars.html

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Free newspaper and magazine articles

	The Friars: The Impact of the Early Mendicant Movement on Western Society. Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/1995
	God's wrath against the wrathful in medieval mendicant... Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 9/22/2008
	Mendicants, the communes, and the law.(Essay) Magazine article from: Church History; 9/1/2008