The Grey Friars in Cambridge
1225–1538

The Franciscan friary in Cambridge between its formation in 1225 and its dissolution in 1538.

John Richard Humpidge Moorman (Author)

9781108002837, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 July 2009

296 pages, 8 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 1.7 cm, 0.38 kg

This is the story of the Franciscan friary in Cambridge, founded in 1225. It describes the new alliance between poverty and learning that was to give fresh vigour to the Order, deeply influencing the life of England as a whole. It provides biographical notes on many Cambridge Franciscans, including the Custodes, Wardens, Vice-Wardens and Lectors, and on the dispute of 1303–6 between the friars and the university. It ends with the dissolution of the Cambridge house in 1538, and the driving out of the friars. The book is an extended version of John R. H. Moorman's Birkbeck Lectures of 1948–9.

Preface
1. The house of Benjamine the Jew: 1225–1267
2. The friars and the University: 1225–1306
3. The new house
4. Domestic affairs
5. Some activities of the friars
6. The Franciscan school at Cambridge in the fourteenth century
7. The latter years
8. The dissolution and after
Appendix
Index.

Subject Areas: Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500 [HBLC]