Taming a brood of vipers : conflict and change in fourteenth-century Dominican convents / / by Michael A. Vargas.
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 co...
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| Superior document: | Medieval and early modern Iberian world, v. 42 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Medieval and early modern Iberian world ;
v. 42. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (362 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Success and successors
- The contentious birth of a new province
- Growth, crisis and recovery
- Bad-boy friars and complicit leaders
- Friar-youths and troublesome others
- Office and official
- Challenged vows
- In defense of corporate honor.