Cultura și muzica în Ordinul Franciscan

Abstract

Who are the Franciscans and what was their cultural contribution? The present study aims to show what was the contribution of the Franciscan movement in the cultural-musical context of the European Middle Ages.
During the eight centuries of their existence, the Franciscan monks carried out an intense cultural activity, starting from the study of theology and philosophy under their various aspects, up to the study of nature and man, through art and the human sciences. Thus, in addition to numerous philosophers and theologians, a large number of connoisseurs in the exact and natural sciences and also in the field of art, history and literature stood out.

From a musical point of view, no other monastic order has such a large number of composers, theoreticians, instrumentalists and interpreters of music. And this is not a passing episode, but a constant for centuries, with a particular growth starting from the 16th century