Dangerous Mystic by Joel F. Harrington

Author:Joel F. Harrington
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2018-03-20T04:00:00+00:00

A New Calling in Strasbourg

Sometime toward the end of Meister Eckhart’s second year as a regent professor in Paris, Berengar of Landora, recently elected master general of the Dominicans, approached the scholar with a new mission. The priory in Strasbourg, the order’s second most important German house (after Cologne), was in crisis. Its deepest and most long-standing conflict was with the secular clergy of the city, who had regularly quarreled with the friars since their arrival nearly a century earlier. Twice—from 1261 to 1263 and between 1287 and 1290—the bishop and his clergy had persuaded the town council to expel the Dominicans from the city. In the second instance, only a papal interdict, suspending all religious services in the city, forced Strasbourg’s magistrates and secular clergy to relent. Twenty years later, the Strasbourg priory maintained a fragile truce with the bishop and his clergy, often jeopardized by local Franciscans, who were among the Dominicans’ most vocal critics.

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