Zealots for souls : Dominican narratives of self-understanding during observant reforms, c. 1388-1517 / Anne Huijbers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huijbers, Anne, author.

Series:

Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte des Dominikanerordens. Neue Folge, 0942-4059 ; Band 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dominicans.

Monastic and religious orders--History.

Monastic and religious orders.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (388 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Zealots for souls draws attention to the impact of the Observant reforms within the Order of Preachers, and ambitiously stirs up a broad scope of questions pertaining to the institutional narratives produced within the order between c. 1388 and 1517. Through the narratives and the forms of remembrance they fostered, the author traces the development of contemporary characteristics of the Dominican self-understanding. The book shows the fluid boundaries between the genres (order chronicles, convent chronicles, collective biographies), highlights the interplay between the narrative and the intended audience, addresses the complex question of authorship, and assesses the indebtedness of 'modern' (printed) narratives to older chronicles or biographical collections. The book demonstrates that the majority of the extant institutional narratives were written by Observant Dominicans, who strived for the internal reform of their order. They wrote history to justify their own reform agenda and therefore produced invariably partisan chronicles. The work's method is widely applicable and contributes to further reassessment of institutional narratives as sources for the analysis of religious and intellectual transformations.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

List of abbreviations

Note to the reader

Introduction

Part 1: Writing the Dominican past

Chapter 1: A vine planted by the Lord

Chapter 2: Compilation as method

Chapter 3: Order chronicles

Chapter 4: Convent chronicles

Chapter 5: Collective biographies

Part 2: Dominicans and Observance

Chapter 6: Observant narrative identities

Chapter 7: Strategies of Observant legitimation

Chapter 8: Dominican Observant models

Part 3: Dominicans and humanism

Chapter 9 : A humanist layer on the Dominican past

Conclusion

Bibliography

Appendices

Manuscripts and archivalia

Index of places

Index of persons

Index of subjects

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed February 10, 2018).

ISBN:

9783110540024

3110540029

OCLC:

1020689764