The Other Friars: The Carmelite, Augustinian, Sack and Pied Friars in the Middle Ages

A concise and accessible history of four of the monastic orders in the middle ages.

In 1274 the Council of Lyons decreed the end of various 'new orders' of Mendicants which had emerged during the great push for evangelism and poverty in the thirteenth-century Latin Church. The Franciscans and Dominicans were explicitly excluded, while the Carmelites and Austin friars were allowed a stay of execution. These last two were eventually able to acquire approval, but other smaller groups, in partic...