HIST-308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Mendicant Orders, Christian Culture, Political Freedom
6 Mar 2020
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In the 13th century, monastic reform happened again with the emergence of the mendicant orders. Franciscans founded by francis and the dominicans founded by dominic. These monastic reforms mattered most to latin christians living in western europe. The 16th century reformers would thus build on these earlier monastic foundations in many ways: luther the monk. The connection between monastic reform and the reformers is more than just metaphorical. Thomas muntzer (1489-1525): conceptions of the reformation. Some social and economic historians would see the reformation as primarily a class issue. Religion was just a window dressing for a deeper battle rooted in financial and labour strife: the political view. The political view has a lot going for it since it was a time of political changes. The reformers got drawn into battles between popes and kings and emperors all the time: the theological view. What both the economic and political view miss is the possibility that theology really did matter.
