Conti, Fabrizio, Witchcraft, Superstition, and
Observant Franciscan Preachers: Pastoral Approach and Intellectual Debate in Renaissance Milan (Europa Sacra, 18), Turnhout, Brepols, 2015; hardback; pp.
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An analysis of the different branches and reforms of the order, as well as aspects of its constitutions, is found in Mario Sensi, 'Clarisses: Entre Spirituels et
Observants', in Sainte Claire D'Assise et sa Posterite, pp.
The author treats the entire sweep of Servite history, including the 15th century conflict between
Observants and Conventuals, without revealing anything about the order's distinct character and mission, essential information to make sense of its internal existence and troubles.
They featured in the Franciscan
Observants, the favourite reforming movement of Henry VII as of many of his contemporaries on the thrones of Europe.
This was a sermon preached primarily against that intractable papist friar John Forest of the
Observants of Greenwich.
An ethnic list called Shas, which stands for Association of Sephardi
Observants of the Torah, won six seats in 1992.
To avoid analyzing all 3.0 million
observants, we randomly draw a large enough sample from each ethnic/racial group to obtain a precise estimate of its self-employment rate and average earnings in self-employment and wage/salary work.
Honorius III confirmed (1223) a new set of rules (including the requirement of a novitiate, etc.) for the now numerous order; but administrative struggles over the conviction of some that the order should be permitted to own the buildings it used and other necessaries eventually split the order (1415) into the Conventuals, following the modified rules, and the more traditional
Observants. About 1528 even stricter reforms were instituted by a third branch, the Capuchins.
In religious orders zealous minorities called "
Observants" insisted that monks, friars, and nuns be forced to keep very precisely the rules they had vowed, and as well to pledge themselves to new disciplinary statutes and spiritual exercises all meant to discipline the personal rooms and fine clothes and refined indulgences to which these religious had grown accustomed.
And
Observants felt even more str ongly than did the conventuals, the tension between learning and the "humility and simplicity" thought to be at the heart of the Franciscan mission.
