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Friar Tuck’s brothers: poverty and wealth in the medieval church

Hear from Melanie Brunner as she discusses the controversy and confrontations between the Franciscans and the papacy.

Learn more about the Franciscans, an order within the Catholic Church, of which Friar Tuck was a prominent, if fictional member, and the dispute between poverty and wealth in the medieval church.

A photo of a chained book from the Special Collections at the University of Leeds.
A photo of a chained book from the Special Collections at the University of Leeds.