Religious movements in the Middle Ages : the historical links between heresy, the Mendicant Orders, and the women's religious movement in the twelfth and thirteenth century, with the historical foundations of German mysticism / Herbert Grundmann ; translated by Steven Rowan ; with an introduction by Robert E. Lerner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grundmann, Herbert, 1902-1970.

Contributor:

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Religiöse Bewegungen im Mittelalter. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Friars.

History.

Europe--Church history--600-1500.

Europe.

Church history.

Monasticism and religious orders for women--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Monasticism and religious orders for women.

Christian heresies--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Christian heresies.

Mysticism--Germany--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Mysticism.

Germany.

Friars--History.

Genre:

Annotations (Provenance) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Penn Provenance:

Peters, Edward, 1936- (donor) (Lea copy)

Physical Description:

xxxii, 443 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [1995]

Contents:

Introduction to the Translation / Robert E. Lerner

Ch. 1. The Religious Movement in the Twelfth Century: "Apostolic Life" and "Christian Poverty"

Ch. 2. The Religious Movement under Innocent III: The Rise of New Types of Orders

Ch. 3. The Social Origins of Humiliati, Waldensians, and Franciscans

Ch. 4. The Origins of the Women's Religious Movement

Ch. 5. The Incorporation of the Women's Religious Movement into the Mendicant Orders

Ch. 6. The Beguines in the Thirteenth Century

Ch. 7. The Heresy of the "Free Spirit" in the Religious Movement of the Thirteenth Century

Ch. 8. The Origins of a Religious Literature in the Vernacular

Appendix: Heresy in the Eleventh Century

The Foundation of Orders and Heretical Sects in the Twelfth Century

German Mysticism, Beguines, and the Heresy of the "Free Spirit"

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-436) and index.

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries by Dr. Edward Peters.

Lea Library copy has ms. underlines and notes in margins by Dr. Edward Peters.

ISBN:

0268016496

9780268016494

OCLC:

30357555