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Saint Louis' Involvement with the Friars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Lester K. Little
Lester K. Little
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The literature popular among students at Paris in the 1260's included a series of poems lamenting the ascendant role in society of the new mendicant orders. The Dominicans are so shrewd, said one of these poems, that they control both Paris and Rome, they are both king and apostle. The blame for this state of affairs was being placed squarely on Louis IX. The king favors the mendicants, read a second poem, yet ill-treatrs his knights, as if the friars could do anything useful for the defense of his kingdom.

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Church History , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , June 1964 , pp. 125 - 148
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Copyright © American Society of Church History 1964

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