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friary Christianity a convent or house of friars How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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While the several centuries before 1300 were crucial ones architecturally as England's great cathedrals, monastic houses, castles, and friaries will testify, "The Built Environment 1300-1540" is hardly less absorbing. Relations with the ecclesiastical establishment are also examined, but, as the studio had no faculty of theology, the web is finer spun, and we are reminded that in Florence teaching in this faculty for much of the time was tacitly relegated to the friaries. Originally called the Friars Minor of the Eremitical Life, they gave their friaries the appearance of hermitages. |
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