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050 00 $aBV4405$b.V36 2008
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100 1 $aVan Engen, John H.
245 10 $aSisters and brothers of the common life :$bthe Devotio Moderna and the world of the later Middle Ages /$cJohn Van Engen.
260 $aPhiladelphia :$bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$c[2008], ©2008.
300 $aix, 433 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aThe Middle Ages series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [389]-416) and index.
505 00 $gIntroduction.$tThe Devotio Moderna and Modern History -- $gCh. 1.$tConverts in the Middle Ages -- $gCh. 2.$tModern-Day Converts in the Low Countries -- $gCh. 3.$tSuspicion and Inquisition -- $gCh. 4.$tFrom Converts to Communities: Tertiaries, Sisters, Brothers, Schoolboys, Canons -- $gCh. 5.$tInventing a Communal Household: Goods, Customs, Labor, and "Republican" Harmony -- $gCh. 6.$tDefending the Modern-Day Devout: Expansion Under Scrutiny -- $gCh. 7.$tProposing a Theological Rationale: The Freedom of the "Christian Religion" -- $gCh. 8.$tTaking the Spiritual Offensive: Caring for the Self, Examining the Soul, Progressing in Virtue -- $tConclusion: Private Gatherings and Self-Made Societies in the Fifteenth Century.
520 1 $a"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 defended their self-designed style of life as exemplary and sustained it in the face of opposition, their women labeled "beguines" and their men "lollards," both meant as derogatory terms. Yet the movement grew, drawing in women and schoolboys, priests and laymen, and spreading outward toward Minister, Flanders, and Cologne." "The Devout were arguably more culturally significant than the Lollards and Beguines, yet they have commanded far less scholarly attention in English. John Van Engen's magisterial book keeps the Modern Devout at its center and thinks through their story anew. Few interpreters have read the Devout so insistently within their own time and space by looking to the social and religious conditions that marked towns and parishes in northern Europe during the fifteenth century and examining the widespread upheavals in cultural and religious life between the 1370s and the 1440s. In Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life, Van Engen grasps the Devout in their humanity, communities, and beliefs, and places them firmly within the urban societies of the Low Countries and the cultures we call late medieval."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aChristian communities$xHistory.
650 0 $aSocieties living in common without vows$xHistory.
650 0 $aCommunalism$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory.
650 0 $aSpiritual life$xChristianity$xHistory.
650 17 $aModerne Devotie.$2gtt
650 17 $aZusters van het Gemene Leven.$2gtt
650 17 $aBroeders van het Gemene Leven.$2gtt
651 7 $aNederland.$2gtt
830 0 $aMiddle Ages series.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86746901
852 00 $bglx$hBV4405$i.V36 2008