ISBN:
0812241193
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9780812241198
Language:
English
Pages:
ix, 433 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten
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23 cm
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Williams, Rowan, 1950 - Sisters and brothers of the common life. The devotio moderna and the world of the later Middle Ages. By John van Engen. (The Middle Ages.) Pp. xi+433 incl. 19 ills. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. £39 (59.95). 978 0 8122 4119 8 2010
Series Statement:
The Middle Ages series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Van Engen, John, 1947 - Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life
DDC:
274/.05
Keywords:
Christian communities History
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Societies living in common without vows History
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Communalism Religious aspects
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Christianity
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History
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Spiritual life Christianity
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History
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Christian communities History
;
Societies living in common without vows History
;
Communalism Religious aspects
;
Christianity
;
History
;
Spiritual life Christianity
;
History
;
Devotio moderna
;
Geschichte 1350-1500
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Schwestern vom Gemeinsamen Leben
;
Brüder vom Gemeinsamen Leben
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Geschichte 1350-1500
;
Devotio moderna
;
Schwestern vom Gemeinsamen Leben
;
Brüder vom Gemeinsamen Leben
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Zeithintergrund
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Geschichte 1350-1500
Description / Table of 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.
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Literaturverzeichnis Seite [389]-416
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