Poverty's proprietors : : ownership and mortal sin at the origins of the Observant Movement / / by James D. Mixson.

• Superior document: Studies in the history of Christian traditions, v. 143
• Author: Mixson, James D.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; v. 143.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Focusing on the theme of property and community, this study offers a new account of the origins of fifteenth-century Observant reform in the monasteries and canonries of the southern Empire. Through close readings of unpublished texts, it traces how ideas about reformed community emerged, both beyond and within the religious orders, in the era of the Council of Constance. Focusing on reform among monks and canons in Bavaria and Austria to 1450, it then shows how those ideas were applied in practice, through reforming visitation and through a devotional culture steeped in the “new piety” of the day. These considerations allow the Observant Movement to offer fresh perspectives on the history religious community, reform, and the church in the fifteenth century.

Table of Contents

Cultures of property between cloister and world -- Calls from without -- Revolt from within -- Property and community between principle and practice -- Property and community between penance and perfection.