Useful Online Resources for Understanding Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

Please let me know if you find any more!

Many of these are on Wikipedia.

The name of the link adequately identifies the subject matter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Name_of_the_Rose

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_of_Assisi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscan#Renewed_controversy_on_the_question_of_poverty

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_XXII

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_of_Ockham

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardo_Gui

Poverty debate:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostolic_poverty

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humiliati

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Waldo

The seven deaths compared to the seven trumpets of the Book of Revelations

http://165.29.91.7/classes/humanities/worldstud/97-98/tnotr/deaths/rose.htm

Angelo Clareno

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01484b.htm Biased against Clareno because his position on poverty is "heresy", according to the Roman Catholic church, and this is the "Catholic Encyclopedia."

http://www.bautz.de/bbkl//a/angelo_d_c.shtml (in German)

Gherardo Segarelli, Fra Dolcino, the Dolcinian heresy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraticelli

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra_Dolcino

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulcinian

Notice their ideology:

The main precepts of the Dulcinian heresy:

Predicted the fall of the ecclesiastical hierarchy and return of the Church to its original ideals of humility and poverty
Predicted the fall of the feudal system which oppressed the people
Human liberation from any restraint and from entrenched power
Creation of a new egalitarian society based on mutual aid and respect, holding property in common and respecting equality between sexes

Note too that Dolcino remained, and still remains, popular in the same area!

Aftermath

"Three years of armed resistance in the name of Christ had ended, but some of the Dulcinians survived and dispersed, and there are traces of their presence in the north of Italy until 1374.

Dolcino, Margaret and the Apostolics became symbols of freedom and emancipation to the present day, and were never forgotten. In the year 1907, the 600th anniversary of the martyrdom, huge celebrations were held in the Sesia valley, and a 12 meter high obelisk erected in the place of their last resistance.

The obelisk was later destroyed by the Fascists in 1927, but a small monument was built there again in 1974. Since 1974, on the second Sunday of September every year, a Dulcinian meeting is held by this monument."

Similar information here, on the "Fra Dolcino" page:

"...he was considered by some to be one of the reformers of the Church and one of the founders of the ideals of the French revolution and socialism. In particular he was positively reevaluated toward the end of the 19th century and was dubbed the Apostle of the Socialist Jesus and thus in 1907 left wing workers of Biella and the Sesia Valley erected a monument on the place of its last resistance. The monument was later (1927) symbolically gunned down by the Fascists."

Quarrel Between the Friars and the Parish Priests

This is conventionally called "quarrel between the regulars and the seculars". Friars live under a "rule" (Latin: regula); parish (and other) priests live "in the world" (Latin: saecula).

The best short introduct is the Wikipedia entry on William of Saint-Amour .