Tipo di documento:
Articolo
Autore/curatore:
Thomas O'Brien
 
Standard: O'Brien, Thomas [Thomas O'Brien]
Titolo:
Options for the poor in twelfth and thirteenth-century Europe

Standard:

Rivista:
Horizons : the journal of the College Theology Society
Tipo di documento:
31
Fascicolo:
2
Data di pubblicazione:
2004
Pagine:
302-321
Soggetti:
Correnti pauperistiche - Medioevo
Franciscani - Concezione di povertà - 1200-1300
Povertà - Concetto valdese - 1100-1300
Povertà volontaria
Umiliati

Riassunto/commento:

 ABSTRACT

This essay uses the lens of the "preferential option for the poor" to examine the unprecedented turn to poverty by religious movements in late twelfth and early thirteenth-century Western Europe. Three movements are selected from the many and various movements espousing poverty: the Humiliati, the Waldensians, and the Franciscans. The Humiliati developed a communal lifestyle that, in key ways, reflected the emerging urban working class. The Waldensians embraced a radical poverty that rejected all forms of property, but they were progressively marginalized from Catholicism and eventually became targets of the Inquisition. The Franciscans adopted a very similar sort of radical poverty, but their communities ultimately would be assimilated into mainstream Catholicism. The essay places these movements into a dialogue with the contemporary notion of the "preferential option for the poor" in order to discover the ways they might inform and illuminate one another.