Sisters and brothers of the common life : the Devotio Moderna and the world of the later Middle Ages /

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"The Devotio moderna, or Modern Devout, puzzled their contemporaries. Beginning in the 1380s in market towns along the Ijssel River of the east-central Netherlands and in the county of Holland, they formed households organized as communes and forged lives centered on private devotion. They defe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Van Engen, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2008]
Colección:Middle Ages series.
Temas:
Schwestern vom Gemeinsamen Leben
Brüder vom Gemeinsamen Leben
Schwestern vom Gemeinsamen Leben.
Brüder vom Gemeinsamen Leben.
Christian communities > History.
Societies living in common without vows > History.
Communalism > Religious aspects > Christianity > History.
Spiritual life > Christianity > History.
Communautés chrétiennes > Histoire.
Sociétés de vie apostolique > Histoire.
Communalisme > Aspect religieux > Christianisme > Histoire.
Vie spirituelle > Christianisme > Histoire.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
Communalism > Religious aspects > Christianity
Christian communities
Societies living in common without vows
Spiritual life > Christianity
Devotio moderna
Zeithintergrund
Moderne Devotie.
Zusters van het Gemene Leven.
Broeders van het Gemene Leven.
Nederland.
Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Religion.
Religious Studies.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 communities : 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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