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The Friars Preachers: The First Hundred Years of the Dominican Order
Author(s) -
Prudlo Donald S.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
history compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.121
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1478-0542
DOI - 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2010.00735.x
Subject(s) - heresy , order (exchange) , scholarship , spirituality , latin americans , poverty , history , state (computer science) , foundation (evidence) , religious studies , psychology , political science , law , philosophy , medicine , archaeology , mathematics , alternative medicine , finance , pathology , algorithm , economics
The first 100 years of the Dominican order witnessed the transition from a small group of men dedicated to preaching against the Albigensian heresy in southern France, to a transnational order with thousands of members affecting nearly every area of Latin Christendom. This essay is a short bibliographical overview of the state of Dominican studies for the first 100 years of their existence. It touches briefly upon the foundation, the idea of poverty, University study, preaching, inquisitions, female spirituality, and the Dominican relationship to the papacy. It offers a look both at the necessary sources for a study of the Dominicans, as well as a look at new directions in scholarship about the order.