LEADER 06451nam 22007691 450 001 9910789577803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-9005-4 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812290059 035 $a(CKB)3710000000024748 035 $a(OCoLC)868967280 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10780868 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001189906 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11777556 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001189906 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11189107 035 $a(PQKB)10566741 035 $a(OCoLC)868304285 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse32078 035 $a(DE-B1597)449798 035 $a(OCoLC)1013956159 035 $a(OCoLC)922662310 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812290059 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442264 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10780868 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682635 035 $a(OCoLC)932313148 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442264 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000024748 100 $a20080416h20082008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSisters and brothers of the common life $ethe Devotio Moderna and the world of the later Middle Ages /$fJohn Van Engen 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d[2008] 210 4$dİ2008 215 $a1 online resource (446 p.) 225 1 $aThe Middle Ages series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-51353-8 311 $a0-8122-2307-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographies (pages [389]-416) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: The Devotio Moderna and modern history -- Converts in the Middle ages -- Conversion as a medieval form of life -- Converts in the Low Countries -- Circles of converts at Strassburg and Brussels -- Converts under suspicion : legislating against Beguines and free spirits -- Modern-day converts in the Low Countries -- The Low Countries -- Households of devout women -- Societies of devout men -- Modern-day conversion -- Suspicion and inquisition -- Suspicion of devout practices -- Charge and counter-charge in the mid-1390s -- Sisters under inquisition, 1396-1397 : Friar Eylard Schoneveld intervenes -- Resisting the inquisitor : legal tactics -- Awaiting the Bishop's decision, 1398-1401 -- From converts to communities : tertiaries, sisters, brothers, schoolboys, canons -- Tertiaries "living the common life" -- Sisters of the common life -- Brothers of the common life -- Schoolboys -- Windesheim canons and canonesses -- An option for enclosure : male canons and female tertiaries -- Inventing a communal household : goods, customs, labor, and "republican" harmony -- Living together without personal property -- House customs and personal exercises -- Obedience and humility in a voluntary community -- Labor : living from the work of their own hands -- Communal gatherings and a "republican" impulse -- Defending the modern-day Devout : expansion under scrutiny -- Women's houses and converting schoolboys : Burgher critics at Zwolle -- Friar Matthew Grabow and the Council of Constance -- The sisters and the aldermen in conflict at Deventer : the women's narrative -- Institutionalizing under scrutiny -- Proposing a theological rationale : the freedom of the "Christian religion" -- Place in society : taking on the "estate of the perfect" -- John Pupper of Goch (d. 1475) -- Gospel law and the freedom of the Christian religion -- Taking the spiritual offensive : caring for the self, examining the soul, progressing in virtue -- Reading, writing, and the lay tongue -- Exhortation in public and correction in private -- Spiritual guidance and mutual reproof -- Modern-day devotion : examining the self, making progress, experiencing peace -- Private gatherings and self-made societies in the fifteenth century -- The question of an afterlife. 330 $aThe Devotio Moderna, or Modern Devout, puzzled their contemporaries. Beginning in the 1380's 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 lived on city streets alongside their neighbors, managed properties and rents in common, and worked in the textile and book trades, all the while refusing to profess vows as members of any religious order or to acquire spouses and personal property as lay citizens. 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 Münster, 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 1370's and the 1440's. 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