medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Monday, February 13, 2006, at 3:26 pm, Jim Bugslag wrote:
> I have always assumed, on no real basis, that the reason that
> mendicant churches
> were located on the outer periphery of cities, or even outside
> their walls, had a great
> deal to do with their 'competition' with parochial and other
> ecclesiastical
> jurisdictions. Can anyone either confirm or unconfirm this?
The Neapolitan experience would not confirm this -- for Naples. This
may well be a situation where a generalization such as "mendicant
churches were located on the outer periphery of cities" works much
better for some cities than for others.
Best again,
John Dillon
(who notes that his initial posting in this thread has made a belated
appearance and who apologizes for the duplication caused by sending its
replacement)
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