Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life : : The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle Ages / / John Van Engen.
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 lived on c...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction: The Devotio Moderna and Modern History
- Chapter one. Converts in the Middle Ages
- Chapter two. Modern-Day Converts in the Low Countries
- Chapter three. Suspicion and Inquisition
- Chapter four. From Converts to Communities: Tertiaries, Sisters, Brothers, Schoolboys, Canons
- Chapter five. Inventing a Communal Household: Goods, Customs, Labor, and ''Republican'' Harmony
- Chapter six. Defending the Modern-Day Devout: Public Expansion Under Scrutiny
- Chapter seven. Proposing a Theological Rationale: The Freedom of the ''Christian Religion''
- Chapter eight. Taking the Spiritual Offensive: Caring for the Self, Examining the Soul, Progressing in Virtue
- Conclusion: Private Gatherings and Self-Made Societies in the Fifteenth Century
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments