By John R. H Moorman
This can be the tale of the Franciscan friary in Cambridge, based in 1225. It describes the hot alliance among poverty and studying that used to be to offer clean energy to the Order, deeply influencing the lifetime of England as an entire. It presents biographical notes on many Cambridge Franciscans, together with the Custodes, Wardens, Vice-Wardens and Lectors, and at the dispute of 1303-6 among the friars and the college. It ends with the dissolution of the Cambridge condo in 1538, and the riding out of the friars. The e-book is a longer model of John R. H. Moorman's Birkbeck Lectures of 1948-9.
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Vol. xxxiv (1941), pp. 13-94. 19 THE FRIARS AND THE UNIVERSITY: I225-I306 community should have always one friar as a lecturer, and one in training to take his place when the time came. The choice of those who were to be trained at the Universities was in the hands of the Provincial Chapters, while the friars thus selected were known as studentes de debito. This, however, was not intended to prevent any individual convent from sending one or more of its men to the University if it could afford to do so.
Little says: It looks as if the position of the Faculty of Theology at Cambridge were not firmly established, and the rulers of the Franciscan Province of England were strengthening it by sending a succession of their most experienced and distinguished members, who already had they're ubique docendi, as teachers. The practice continued down to about 1300; to that time about one-third of the Cambridge Masters of the Friars Minor were already graduates in theology of other universities. 5 If this was the policy of the authorities in the Order there seems no doubt that it was successful, for at the close of the thirteenth century the faculty of theology at Cambridge seems to have 1 Little and Pelster, Oxford Theology and Theologians, pp.
But the church was still standing, and the University authorities saw no reason why it should not still be used for their functions. 3 The church was probably built on the model of most Franciscan churches, without transepts but with a long and spacious choir and nave. The nave had at least one aisle and almost certainly had two. There is no record of when it was built, but in 1267 an incident took place which makes it appear that the church, or at any rate a part of it, was then in use. In that year a chaplain of Barnwell had been expelled and excommunicated by the Prior.
