IMC 2007: Sessions

Session 1228: The Organisation of the Mendicant Orders, III: Legal Aspects of Mendicant Organisation

Organiser:	Jens Röhrkasten, School of History & Cultures, University of Birmingham
Moderator/Chair:	Gert Melville, Forschungsstelle für Vergleichende Ordensgeschichte, Katholische Universität, Eichstätt / Institut für Geschichte, Technische Universität, Dresden
Paper 1228-b	Constitutional Reform and Legal Challenges: John XXII and the Reorganisation of the Franciscan Order (Language: English) Melanie Brunner, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life
Paper 1228-c	The Organisation of the Franciscan Custody of Oxford (Language: English) Annette Kehnel, Abteilung Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Universität Mannheim Index terms: Monasticism, Religious Life
Abstract	The mendicant Orders developed their own administrative and legal practices. They also had to interact with secular laws and were subject to intervention by the papacy. The legal framework of mendicant organisation will be explored in this session on the basis of three case studies.