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Taming a brood of vipers : conflict and change in fourteenth-century Dominican convents /
Gamblers, cheats, womanizers and thieves, and cranky reformers who wanted their old Order back, flesh-and-blood men with complicated desires and knotty dispositions. Opening a rich trove of sources the annual chapter acts of the Dominican Order 's Province of Aragon Michael Vargas uncovers the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston :
Brill,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Medieval and early modern Iberian world ;
v. 42. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Gamblers, cheats, womanizers and thieves, and cranky reformers who wanted their old Order back, flesh-and-blood men with complicated desires and knotty dispositions. Opening a rich trove of sources the annual chapter acts of the Dominican Order 's Province of Aragon Michael Vargas uncovers the costly successes and institutional weaknesses that contributed to the distressing realities of Dominican conventual life in the troubled fourteenth century. Taming a Brood of Vipers finds Dominican friars engaged in activities very much at odds with our sense of the way it should have been, but removing. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 350 pages) : maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004203167 9004203168 |
| ISSN: | 1569-1934 ; |