The controversy in the second decade of the fourteenth century on the poverty of Christ and the apostles under John XXII must rank as one of the oddest of all medieval conflicts. For some time, the energies of the greatest scholastics in Christendom were devoted to discussing the issue: did Christ and the apostles have property in common or not?
This book is an assessment of the rise and fall within the Franciscan Order of the doctrine of the absolute poverty of Jesus Christ and the apostles. Covering the de…
