What strikes Dennis Martin about Kieckhefer's "unquiet souls" is very
much what struck me, that they were outside the context of an established
monastic regime, which might have encouraged greater moderation. I
wonder most about those who were mendicants or had mendicants as
confessors. How prepared were Mendicants to provide spiritual direction,
as opposed to hearing confessions along the lines of the casuist
summae which friars composed. I looked at Raymond of Penafort last
night. Neither it nor some of the others which I have used in the
past seem to be long on spiritual advice. My memory of Antoninus of
Florence, however, is that he had a less purely legalistic viewpoint.
tom izbicki
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