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Sisters and brothers of the common life : the Devotio Moderna and the world of the later Middle Ages / John Van Engen.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) BV4405 .V36 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Van Engen, John.
- Series:
- Middle Ages series
- The Middle Ages series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christian communities--History.
- Christian communities.
- Societies living in common without vows--History.
- Societies living in common without vows.
- Communalism--Religious aspects--Christianity--History.
- Communalism.
- Spiritual life--Christianity--History.
- Spiritual life.
- Spiritual life--Christianity.
- History.
- Communalism--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 433 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Devotio Moderna and modern history
- Converts in the Middle ages
- Conversion as a medieval form of life
- Converts in the Low Countries
- Circles of converts at Strassburg and Brussels
- Converts under suspicion : legislating against Beguines and free spirits
- Modern-day converts in the Low Countries
- The Low Countries
- Households of devout women
- Societies of devout men
- Modern-day conversion
- Suspicion and inquisition
- Suspicion of devout practices
- Charge and counter-charge in the mid-1390s
- Sisters under inquisition, 1396-1397 : Friar Eylard Schoneveld intervenes
- Resisting the inquisitor : legal tactics
- Awaiting the Bishop's decision, 1398-1401
- From converts to communites : tertiaries, sisters, brothers, schoolboys, canons
- Tertiaries "living the common life"
- Sisters of the common life
- Brothers of the common life
- Schoolboys
- Windesheim canons and canonesses
- An option for enclosure : male canons and female tertiaries
- Inventing a communal household : goods, customs, labor, and "republican" harmony
- Living together without personal property
- House customs and personal exercises
- Obedience and humility in a voluntary community
- Labor : living from the work of their own hands
- Communal gatherings and a "republican" impulse
- Defending the modern-day Devout : expansion under scrutiny
- Women's houses and converting schoolboys : Burgher critics at Zwolle
- Friar Matthew Grabow and the Council of Constance
- The sisters and the aldermen in conflict at Deventer : the women's narrative
- Institutionalizing under scrutiny
- Proposing a theological rationale : the freedom of the "Christian religion"
- Place in society : taking on the "estate of the perfect"
- John Pupper of Goch (d. 1475)
- Gospel law and the freedom of the Christian religion
- Taking the spiritual offensive : caring for the self, examining the soul, progressing in virtue
- Reading, writing, and the lay tongue
- Exhortation in public and correction in private
- Spiritual guidance and mutual reproof
- Modern-day devotion : examining the self, making progress, experiencing peace
- Private gatherings and self-made societies in the fifteenth century
- The question of an afterlife.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [389]-416) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0812241193
- 9780812241198
- OCLC:
- 226389300
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