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This guide to the history of monks, canons and friars of the Mendicant Orders focuses on the use of documents and other texts to reveal not only the history of the Orders, but also the workings of their institutions, their organisation, administration and their relationship with the laity and the Church. Each chapter includes extracts from a wide variety of Latn texts, hagiographies, liturgical documents, histories, archive documents, as well as acts, edicts and letters, with a French translation and commentary. French text.