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Around the turn of the 13th century, a young man from the town of Assisi in the center of modern day Italy, informed

his father that he wouldn't be going into the family business.

In fact, he wouldn't be going into any business at all unless you count caring for lepers and preaching

to birds as a business.

The young man's name was, of course, Francis.

By the time of his death in 1226 he had started a movement that would transform Christianity

across Europe.

The followers of Francis of Assisi were the Franciscans, just one of several mendicant orders who emerged in the 13th century.

The term mendicant refers to the fact that they were sworn to poverty and survived on charitable

donations alone.

The members of mendicant orders, sometimes called friars, posed a challenge to the established

church.

Their devotion to a life of humility and poverty served as an unspoken and sometimes

spoken rebuke to the wealth of bishops and the worldly entanglements of popes. A clash was inevitable, as we'll see in a few episodes, it came in the

form of agonized debate over the mendicant ideal of absolute poverty. More surprising was the role that the Franciscans came to play in the medieval universities, and thus in the history

of philosophy.

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