Interesting piece on St. Francis of Assisi in the TLS. Takes the intuitive view that deliberate poverty is in essence anticapitalist. But these orders became the institutional correlates of reformation. And this naturalistic individualism which was taken to greater extents to the north became one of the bases of reformation and the first stirrings of private industry. Even in the late middle ages, the OP and the OFM were associated with the global church as against the church of the native place. The OP tended to adopt saintly patrons associated with global trade and the episcopy, while the OFM would sometimes advocate the cults of the (then) new order of indigenous saints, furthering the sense of naturalistic individualism, as against the longstanding cults of the place, the latter frequently with ancient pagan overtones.
Characteristic of one of the Weekly Readers to use the present superficial divisions to explain all things, and thereby introduce the world to more things, but, having been introduced to more things, these superficial divisions seem less and less tenable. At a certain point, perhaps contra naturalistic individualism, it is error to think as a child thinks.