Rules and observance
Subtitle: devising forms of communal life
By: edited by Mirko Breitenstein, Julia Burkhardt, Stefan Burkhardt, Jens Röhrkasten
Series: Vita regularis Ordnungen und Deutungen religiosen Lebens im Mittelalter -- Band 60
Publisher: Lit
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9783643904898
Subjects: Monastic and religious life; History; Monasticism and religious orders
Description: This collection of essays focuses on rules and observances in medieval monasteries and provides a survey of how the efficacy of religious communities could be ensured. The book offers a rich variety of perspectives, including the role of exhortatory literature and education, the problem of maintaining obedience, the implementation of reform, the importance of architectural features, the relative merits of the eremitical (religious recluse), and the monastic form of the vita religiosa. While the emphasis is on the history of the Franciscan order between the 13th and 15th centuries, articles on other monastic communities provide a comparative approach. The volume gives a closer insight into European research projects and casts light on manifold aspects of monastic rules and observances as "devising forms of communal life."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.