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Brevi considerazioni sulla legislazione canonica medievale circa l’autonomia degli Ordini mendicanti nell’esercizio del loro ministero pastorale

Summary: 1. The mediaeval question of regulating the relationship beween the pastoral activities of religious and the territorial ecclesiastical structures (dioceses and parishes). 2. From Honorius III (1216-1227) to Martin IV (1281-1285): The expansion of the Mendicant Ordersi. 3. From Boniface VIII (1294-1303) to Sixtus IV (1471-1484): The functional rationalisation of relations between the seculars and regulars in concerning the cure of souls. 4. Consequences and conclusions: Disciplinary and organisational, but not operative, independence of the Mendicants in pastoral care.