The Friars and How They Came to England —— Being a Translation of Thomas of Eccleston's "De Adventu F. F. Minorum in Angliam"; Done Into English With an Introductory Essay on the Spirit and Genius of the Franciscan Friars

----- 修士们和他们如何来到英格兰

ISBN: 9781330860618 出版年：2016 页码：261 Cuthbert Forgotten Books

The Friars Minor, or Franciscan Friars, as they are popularly called, arrived in Eng land in the year 1224. They came at a moment when events were swiftly moving towards a decisive crisis in our national history. The feudal system, assailed on the one side by the Crown, and on the other by the rising burgher class, was passing away, ending a noble history in a not altogether inglorious death; for feudalism had saved Europe from barbaric licence and had laid the foundations of civilised society, and it left behind it a legacy of noble deeds and beautiful thought which we do well to cherish. But its day was over.