The Bible and Rights in the Franciscan Disputes Over Poverty

Leff, Gordon

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“…Turner and H. Haque Khondker, Globalization East and West (London: 2010), 163. 6 For example, A. García y García, "The Spanish School of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: A Precursor of the Theory of Human Rights," Ratio Juris 10:1 (1997): [25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35]and Pagden,"Human Rights,Natural Rights. " long march to modern human rights.…”

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“…34 Gordon Leff described John XXII's ruling that there was property in the state of innocence as the "sanctification of property rights". 35 The papacy did not only target memory but also linguistic meaning; according to William of Ockham, John XXII argued that the Franciscans "by means of the ambiguity of terms and names (…) labours to bring in errors, overthrow the truth, drag the sacred Scriptures into a false meaning". 36 The repression of the radical implications of the Franciscans' poverty doctrine was a struggle not only to assert monopolies of law, but also of memory and meaning.…”

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The Darker Side of Rights in Global Intellectual History: An Ambivalent Case of Franciscan Poverty

McClure¹

2020

Rights at the Margins

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This chapter argues that the history of the Franciscan Order can provide an alternative perspective on the darker side of rights which goes beyond the critiques already established by postcolonial studies.It uses the methodologies of global intellectual history to question the boundaries of the contextual analysis of concepts. Postcolonial critiques of the darker side of rights have focused upon the entanglement between rights and colonialism that developed from the sixteenth-century extra-European conquests. By focusing on the disputes about the legal and theological permissibility of Franciscan poverty in the medieval period, we see that discourses of rights were already entangled with colonial processes prior to extra-European conquests. In trying to theorize an ideological position of poverty, Franciscans had an ambivalent role in this history as they contributed to the development of rights by criticizing increasingly legal understandings of rights and were critics of the way in which this restricted other ways that the poor could legitimately use to acquire the things of necessity.

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The Darker Side of Rights in Global Intellectual History: An Ambivalent Case of Franciscan Poverty

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2020

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Uthred and the Friars: Apostolic Poverty and Clerical Dominion between FitzRalph and Wyclif

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1994

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The dispute between the Durham Benedictine Uthred of Boldon and members of the mendicant orders on the issue of ecclesiastical possessions was only one in a series of intra-clerical controversies in England during the later fourteenth century. Spanning a decade from the early 1360s to the early 1370s, it occupies a crucial area between the attack on mendicant privileges by Richard FitzRalph, the archbishop of Armagh, and Wyclif's denunciation of the endowed church. C. H. Thompson first pointed to the importance of this period between the activities of FitzRalph and those of Wyclif for the development of political thought. The issue has recently become more pressing with Wendy Scase's identification of the development of a “new anticlericalism” in the later fourteenth century. Older traditions of anticlericalism, she claims, had as their targets specific classes of cleric. These traditions, however, were established during this period on a new basis that allowed them to become anticlerical in the fullest sense of the word. “The old traditions of opposition to clerics were developed and unified in a new polemic which opposed all clerics. This was the essential strength and danger of the new anticlericalism.” The present study concentrates on one central aspect of this extension of the anticlerical polemic: the attack on ecclesiastical endowment.

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The Bible and Rights in the Franciscan Disputes Over Poverty

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The Darker Side of Rights in Global Intellectual History: An Ambivalent Case of Franciscan Poverty

The Darker Side of Rights in Global Intellectual History: An Ambivalent Case of Franciscan Poverty

Uthred and the Friars: Apostolic Poverty and Clerical Dominion between FitzRalph and Wyclif

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