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1 online resource (302 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1. Observant Reforms and Cultural Production in Europe:Introductory Remarks / Bert Roest. 2. Which Rhetoric for which Observance? Provisional Investigations in Fifteenth-Century Italy / Cécile Caby. 3. An Amphibious Identity: Apollonio Bianchi between Observance and Humanism / Pietro Delcorno. 4. Caterina of Siena in the Writings of Observant Poor Clares: Caterina Vigri and Battista of Varano / Silvia Serventi. 5. Religious Life and Visual Authority: Library Decorationamong Mendicant Observant Orders / Roberto Cobianchi. 6. Observant Reform and Dominican Church Interiors inItaly (15th-16th Centuries) / Haude Morvan. 7. The Organ and the Italian Observance:Discourses Tested by Practices / Hugo Perina. 8. Female Chant Repertoire in Aveiro's Dominican Conventof Jesus during the Observant Reform (15th Century) / Kristin Hoefener. 9. Towards a Critical Edition of the Libro del Conorte of theAbbess Juana de la Cruz (1481-1534) / Pablo Acosta-García. 10. Third Order Convents in Western Flanders: Varieties inTertiary Observance / Koen Goudriaan. 11. Preaching the Observant Reform in Female CommunitiesRelated to the Devotio moderna / Patricia Stoop. 12. Observant Reform and the Cults of New DominicanSaints in the Southeastern Adriatic / Ana Marinković and Valentina Živković. 13. Was There an Observant Cistercian Movement?Reform in the Medieval History of the Cistercian Order / Emilia Jamroziak |
| Summary |
The impetus of religious reform between ca. 1380-1520, which expressed itself in a variety of Observant initiatives in many religious orders all over Europe, and also brought forth the Devotio moderna movement in the late medieval Low Countries, had considerable repercussions for the production of a wide range of religious texts, and the embrace of other forms of cultural production (scribal activities, liturgical innovations, art, music, religious architecture). At the same time, the very impetus of reform within late medieval religious orders and the wish to return to a more modest religious lifestyle in accordance with monastic and mendicant rules, and ultimately with the commands of Christ in the Gospel, made it difficult to wholeheartedly embrace the material consequences of learning, literary and artistic prowess, as the very pursuit of such pursuits ran against basic demands of evangelical poverty and humility. This volume explores how this tension was negotiated in various Observant and Devotio moderna contexts, and how communities connected with these movements instrumentalized various types of writing, learning, and other forms of cultural expression to further the cause of religious reform, defend it against order-internal and external criticism, to shape recognizable reform identities for themselves, and to transform religious life in society as a whole |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Monasticism and religious orders -- Europe -- History
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Monastic and religious life -- Europe -- History
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Monastic and religious life.
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Monasticism and religious orders.
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Europe.
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History.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Delcorno, Pietro 1977- editor contributor
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Roest, Bert, 1965- editor, contributor.
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| ISBN |
9789493296084 |
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9493296083 |
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