Practice question · True or false
The mendicant orders differed from earlier monasticism chiefly in going into towns rather than withdrawing from the world.
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- Compare where a Cistercian house and a Franciscan convent were sited.
- One seeks the remotest valley available; the other the busiest street.
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True
Why
True, and it is a response to a changed Europe. Parish structures were built for villages, and the towns of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries had outgrown them. The friars went where the unattended population was, which is also why they were resented by parish clergy whose offerings they diverted.
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