10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POSSESSIONATE»
Discover the use of
possessionate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
possessionate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Five Centuries of Religion
On the other hand, it was now notorious that they were often frankly
possessionate, possessing houses and endowments in common, and with
pocket-money and legacies and rents in private. Therefore the misunderstanding
between them ...
2
Two Saints: St Bernard and St Francis
Other “possessionate” monks had done this, but the early Cistercians did not care
to do it. Yet often, before the Cistercians, there had been individual monks who
revolted against the “possessionate” system, and lived for a while, at least, ...
The difference between the 'possessionate' monks and nuns, professedly
removed from the world, devoting their whole lives to the ordered services and
internal routine of their houses, and the 'non- possessionate' friars, preaching
and ...
4
Inquisitions and Assessments Relating to Feudal Aids: With ...
sat-ramentum suum quod omnes persones (sic) in ista inquisicione nominate,
sunt seisite et possessionate et eorum quelibet est seisita et possessionata de
terris et tenementis in dominico suo ut de libero tenemento, et tenent stu tenet
modo ...
Great Britain. Public Record Office, 1908
5
Inquisitions and Assessments Relating to Feudal Aids, with ...
sacramentum suum quod omnes personas fsicj in ista inquisicione nominatey
sunt seisite et possessionate et eorum quelibet est seisita et possessionata de
terris et tenement is in dominico suo ut de libero tenementoy et tenent seu tenet ...
Great Britain. Exchequer, A. S. Maskelyne, C. Johnson, 1908
6
The Medieval Scene: An Informal Introduction to the Middle Ages
The monk was “possessionate”; however strictly he, personally, might abdicate
all private property, his monastery was endowed, and often with enormous
wealth. The friar, on the other hand, was theoretically a complete mendicant, and
was in ...
7
Hungary: From Ninth Century Origins to the 1956 Uprising
Béla I, King of H., 19 Béla II, King of H., 19 Béla III, King of H., 20, 25-6 Béla IV,
King of H., 30-6 Belgrade, Siege of, 53 Bem, General, 162-3 Bene possessionate
nobles, I I I Bethlen, Gzibor, 80-2 Bethlen, Count Istvén: MinisterPresident, 214-
22 ...
8
The Outlaws of Medieval Legend
The peasants had good cause to hate the possessionate clergy. A corporate
landlord always tends to be harsher than a personal one, because its officer
cannot, as an individual owner can, take account of cases of special hardship,
because ...
9
The Study of Spirituality
... and rigorous mendicancy was gradually abandoned, until in 1474 the Order
was given permission by the Pope to become possessionate. Contrary to the
Franciscan ideology of poverty, the Dominicans tended to make more practical
claims.
Oxford Cheslyn Jones former Principal Pusey House, Geoffrey Wainwright Professor of Systematic Theology Duke University, Oxford Edward Yarnold former Tutor in Theology Campion Hall, 1986
10
Life in the Middle Ages
But John XXII (1316-1334) was a lawyer and a disciplinarian; the extreme
doctrine of the poverty of Christ lent itself too easily to propaganda against a
possessionate clergy; and in 1323 he condemned it as heretical, thereby plainly
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