Sisters and brothers of the common life
Subtitle: Devotio moderna, self-made societies, and the world of the later medieval ages
By: John Van Engen.
Series: The middle ages series
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 433
ISBN-13: 9780812241198
Subjects: Christian communities -- History; Societies living in common without vows -- History; Communalism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History; Spiritual life -- Christianity -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The Devotio Moderna and modern history; title: Converts in the Middle ages; title: Conversion as a medieval form of life; title: Converts in the Low Countries; title: Circles of converts at Strassburg and Brussels; title: Converts under suspicion : legislating against Beguines and free spirits; title: Modern-Day converts in the Low Countries; title: The Low Countries; title: Households of devout women; title: Societies of devout men; title: Modern-day conversion; title: Suspicion and inquisition; title: Suspicion of devout practices; title: Charge and counter-charge in the mid-1390s; title: Sisters under inquisition, 1396/1397 : Friar Eylard Schoneveld intervenes; title: Resisting the inquisitor : legal tactics; title: Awaiting the Bishop's decision, 1398/1401; title: From converts to communites : tertiaries, sisters, brothers, schoolboys, canons; title: Tertiaries "living the common life"; title: Sisters of the common life; title: Brothers of the common life; title: Schoolboys; title: Windesheim canons and canonesses; title: An option for enclosure : male canons and female tertiaries; title: Inventing a communal household : goods, customs, labor, and "republican" harmony; title: Living together without personal property; title: House customs and personal exercises; title: Obedience and humility in a voluntary community; title: Labor : living from the work of their own hands; title: Communal gatherings and a "republican" impulse; title: Defending the Modern-Day Devout : expansion under scrutiny; title: Women's houses and converting schoolboys : Burgher critics at Zwolle; title: Friar Matthew Grabow and the Council of Constance; title: The sisters and the aldermen in conflict at Deventer : the women's narrative; title: Institutionalizing under scrutiny; title: Proposing a theological rationale : the freedom of the "Christian religion"; title: Place in society : taking on the "estate of the perfect"; title: John Pupper of Goch (d. 1475); title: Gospel law and the freedom of the Christian religion; title: Taking the spiritual offensive : caring for the self, examining the soul, progressing in virtue; title: Reading, writing, and the lay tongue; title: Exhortation in public and correction in private; title: Spiritual guidance and mutual reproof; title: Modern-Day devotion : examining the self, making progress, experiencing peace.