Ciceri, Antonio, ed., Quaestiones Circa Matrimonium (Roma: Editiones Collegii S. Bonaventurae ad Claras Aquas, 2001). ISBN: 88
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Number of pages of primary source text: 220

Medieval Author(s): Peter John Olivi

Dates: 1280 - 1300

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Original Language(s): Latin;

Translation: Original language included.

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The Franciscan order, founded in the early 13th century by St. Francis of Assisi, began as an order devoted to a life of poverty, begging, and preaching. Over the years, however, as the order accumulated wealth and prestige, its members came to differ on the issue of poverty: the majority, known as Conventuals, had come to terms with the order’s wealth and lived a stable, if still impoverished, lifestyle; the Spirituals, a more radical wing of the order, argued that for the religious to possess any wealth at all was antithetical to both Francis’ teaching and Christ’s. Pier John Olivi (in Latin, Petrus Ioannis Olivi) was a theologian and Spiritual who advocated a stricter understanding of poverty; he was later accused and condemned as a heretic. Contained in this volume is the first edition of Olivi’s Quaestiones on Marriage, which

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