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Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life: The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle Ages (The Middle Ages Series) PDF

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by John Van Engen| 2008| 446 pages| 12| English

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The Devotio Moderna, or Modern Devout, puzzled their contemporaries. Beginning in the 1380s 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 and “beguines and ” and their men and “lollards, and ” both meant as derogatory terms. Yet the movement grew, drawing in women and schoolboys, priests and laymen, and spreading outward toward Munster, Flanders, and Cologne.The Devout were arguably more culturally significant than the Lollards and Beguines, yet they have

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Author:John Van Engen
Publication Year:2008
ISBN:9780812241198
Pages:446
Language:English
File Size:12
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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