A history of the order.
Tracing the transfer of English Benedictine nuns from Brussels to Winchester following the French Revolution. Article in PDF format.
A course on the origins of the Franciscan order.
An article on the history of the Franciscan order and its role within the Catholic church. From the Catholic Encyclopedia.
An essay contending that the Franciscans had a vital role in promoting Papal authority.
Essay from the Ecole Initiative that looks at the early history of the order and its role in the Netherlands.
An essay on Papal attempts at reform of the Benedictine rules in the fourteenth century. In PDF format.
A general term denoting several groups of Friars Minor, existing in the second half of the thirteenth and the beginning of the fourteenth centuries, who, in opposition to the main body of the order, pretended to observe the Rule of St. Francis in its primitive severity.
An article on the dissolution of a Carthusian house on the orders of Henry VIII.
An examination of the historical coverage the Jesuits received in North America. By John Carrigg, Professor of History at Franciscan University.
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