03581nam 2200505 450 991046724370332120200923020339.03-11-054002-910.1515/9783110540291(CKB)4100000001965705(MiAaPQ)EBC5158348(DE-B1597)480411(OCoLC)1020689764(DE-B1597)9783110540291(Au-PeEL)EBL5158348(CaPaEBR)ebr11500901(EXLCZ)99410000000196570520180212h20182018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierZealots for souls Dominican narratives of self-understanding during observant reforms, c. 1388-1517 /Anne HuijbersBerlin, [Germany] ;Boston, [Massachusetts] :De Gruyter,2018.©20181 online resource (388 pages)Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte des Dominikanerordens. Neue Folge,0942-4059 ;Band 223-11-049525-2 3-11-054029-0 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of abbreviations -- Note to the reader -- Introduction -- Part 1: Writing the Dominican past -- Chapter 1: A vine planted by the Lord -- Chapter 2: Compilation as method -- Chapter 3: Order chronicles -- Chapter 4: Convent chronicles -- Chapter 5: Collective biographies -- Part 2: Dominicans and Observance -- Chapter 6: Observant narrative identities -- Chapter 7: Strategies of Observant legitimation -- Chapter 8: Dominican Observant models -- Part 3: Dominicans and humanism -- Chapter 9 : A humanist layer on the Dominican past -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendices -- Manuscripts and archivalia -- Index of places -- Index of persons -- Index of subjectsZealots for souls draws attention to the impact of the Observant reforms within the Order of Preachers, and ambitiously stirs up a broad scope of questions pertaining to the institutional narratives produced within the order between c. 1388 and 1517. Through the narratives and the forms of remembrance they fostered, the author traces the development of contemporary characteristics of the Dominican self-understanding. The book shows the fluid boundaries between the genres (order chronicles, convent chronicles, collective biographies), highlights the interplay between the narrative and the intended audience, addresses the complex question of authorship, and assesses the indebtedness of 'modern' (printed) narratives to older chronicles or biographical collections. The book demonstrates that the majority of the extant institutional narratives were written by Observant Dominicans, who strived for the internal reform of their order. They wrote history to justify their own reform agenda and therefore produced invariably partisan chronicles. The work's method is widely applicable and contributes to further reassessment of institutional narratives as sources for the analysis of religious and intellectual transformations.Monastic and religious ordersHistoryElectronic books.Monastic and religious ordersHistory.255.2Huijbers Anne1037419MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910467243703321Zealots for souls2458385UNINA