Emanuele Carletti

This contribution aims to focus attention on the measures adopted by the Mendicant Orders to counteract the consequences of the shock represented by the great plague that spread across Europe between 1347 and 1350. The study concentrates on the analysis of legislative sources from the main orders that overcame the hurdle of the Second Council of Lyon in 1274, namely those of the Minors, the Preachers, the Hermits of Saint Augustine, the Carmelites, and the Servants of Mary...