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Appearance of the Spirituals and Divergence of the concept of the Medieval Ecclesia in South France between the late 13th Century and the early 14th Century

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2015, (32), pp.5~28
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

HONG, Yong-Jin 1

1고려대학교

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ABSTRACT

This article examines the intellectual origins and genesis of the Spiritual Franciscan order in the historical context of the conflict with ecclesiastical institution and the papacy. This conflict involves different understandings on the concept of the Church. One is the view of the official Church de facto constituted on the papal monarchy and the hierarchy between the cleric and the layman, and the other, the ideal perspective on the ideal Church de jure, equal faith community which already appeared in the period of Primitive Christianity. The apparent contradiction of this suture in the thirteenth century saw a hole in the stitch itself, the Order of Friars Minor. At the end of the thirteenth century, formed a group of brothers, called “Spiritual”, who wanted to follow the rules of St. Francis literally, against ecclesiastical depravity. Various debates on the virtue of “poverty” arose severe oppression against spirituals of South France by Pope John XXII, who underlined unity and integration of the Church in the early fourteenth century. However contradiction and conflict exposed by Spirituals aggravated the ecclesiastical and papal authority with the formation of devotio moderna.

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