HUM-2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Petrarch, Shame Society, Bubonic Plague
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Mendicant orders: did not own anything or conduct business, had to be supported by contributions, franciscans and dominicans were like this. Dominican: did not live in monasteries, believed they were there to serve the people, believed in helping the poor, felt the church should not have any property or do business work, the preachers. Transubstantiation: once the bread and the wine have been blessed it is the blood and body of christ. Francis of assisi: associated with wildlife, came from wealthy family, abandoned wealth, lived in poverty, and started the franciscan. Canticle of the sun: written by francis of assisi, about how things work in nature, wrote in language understood by general population. Guelphs: for the pope, merchants for the pope. Ghibelline: against the pope, nobility favoring the emperor. In tuscany: rivalry with florence goes back to charlemagne, predominantly ghibelline, merchant town, merchants had more power than the aristocracy, communes.
