Abstract
The contribution deals with the renunciation of family (Familienlosigkeit) in the religious discourse of the Franciscans. The radical separation from the family environment was meant to design a new familial consciousness in a spiritual dimension which conceptually resorts to the semantic of fraternitas: Biological family constellations and familial roles were transmitted into a new frame which promised sanctity not only to the individual religious but to the whole family. Given the rapid and narrow interdependences of the Franciscans with the urban world of the 13th century, family renunciation as defined by Matthew 10,35–37 represented an ideal that was hardly going to be realised. Instead of dissociation from relatives joining the order, proximity is now sought.
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