HIST-338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Genghis Khan, Fraticelli, Francis Rule
23 Nov 2020
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It was a franciscan mission led by friar john of pian (giovanni piano) that traveled to the court of ghenghis khan. Francis himself preached to the "ayyubid sultan in egypt. Francis was as disorganized a person as one might ever imagine, for years he avoided writing a rule for his group; when he did finally produce one it was so vague and shapeless as to be effectively useless. The reputations of both orders changed markedly in the fourteenth century: to the franciscans, evangelical poverty was their defining characteristic, the emotional rallying post to which they clung for their identity. Francis" rule and the will he left behind at his death emphasized the need to relinquish all wealth as a spiritual necessity even more than as an institutional policy, for the order was becoming wealthy in spite of itself. People of all walks of life who were in one way or another moved by the good works of the.
