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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826919203321

Autore

Mixson James D

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2009

ISBN

1-282-40093-2

9786612400933

90-474-2751-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Collana

Studies in the history of Christian traditions, , 1573-5664 ; ; v. 143

Disciplina

271.00943/0902

Soggetti

Poverty, Vow of - History of doctrines - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Property - Religious aspects - Catholic Church - History of doctrines - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Church renewal - Catholic Church - History - To 1500

Monasticism and religious orders - Germany - Bavaria - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Monasticism and religious orders - Austria - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Bavaria (Germany) Church history

Austria Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-253) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 Through close readings of unpublished texts, it traces how ideas about reformed community emerged, both beyond and within the religious orders, in the era of the Council of Constance.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.