Self-representation of Medieval Religious Communities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Self-representation of Medieval Religious Communities write by Anne Müller. This book was released on 2009. Self-representation of Medieval Religious Communities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the medieval monastery as symbolic space (locus symbolicus) and looks at forms of self-representation in medieval monastic life. Papers focus on both the transitory nature of organised religious life, which is based on symbols, and the separate identities religious communities developed by using their own specific forms of ritual and symbolisation. Case studies treat the British Isles and the broader European context. Among the key issues explored here are rituals in internal organisation, the symbolic use of space, architecture and art, symbolism in social interactions, and symbolic constructions of the past.
Fictive Orders and Feminine Religious Identities, 1200-1600
Fictive Orders and Feminine Religious Identities, 1200-1600 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fictive Orders and Feminine Religious Identities, 1200-1600 write by Alison More. This book was released on 2018-03-01. Fictive Orders and Feminine Religious Identities, 1200-1600 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Any visitor to Belgium or the Netherlands is immediately struck by the number of convents and beguinages (begijnhoven) in both major cities and small towns. Their number and location in urban centres suggests that the women who inhabited them once held a prominent role. Despite leaving a visible mark on cities in Europe, much of the story of these women - known variously as beguines, tertiaries, klopjes, recluses, and anchoresses - remains to be told. Instead of aspiring to live as traditional religious, they transcended normative assumptions about religion and gender and had a very real impact on their religious and secular worlds. The sources for their tale are often fragmentary and difficult to interpret. However, careful scrutiny allows their voices to be heard. Drawing on an array of sources including religious rules, sermons, hagiographic vitae, and rapiaria, Fictive Orders and Feminine Religious Identities traces the story of pious laywomen between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. It both emphasizes the innovative roles of women who transcended established forms of institutional religious life and reveals the ways in which historiographical habits have obscured the dynamic and fluid nature of their histories. By highlighting the development of irregular and extraregular communities and tracing the threads of monasticisation that wove their way around pious laywomen, this book draws attention to the vibrant and dynamic culture of feminine lay piety that persisted from the later middle ages onwards.
Religious Orders and Religious Identity Formation, ca. 1420-1620
Religious Orders and Religious Identity Formation, ca. 1420-1620 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religious Orders and Religious Identity Formation, ca. 1420-1620 write by . This book was released on 2016-01-12. Religious Orders and Religious Identity Formation, ca. 1420-1620 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume deals with the transformative force of Observant reforms during the long fifteenth century, and with the massive literary output by Observant religious, a token of a profound pastoral professionalization that provided religious and lay people alike with encompassing models of religious perfection, as well as with new tools to shape their religious identity. The essays in this work contend that these models and tools had an ongoing effect far into the sixteenth century (on all sides of the emerging confessional divide). At the same time, the controversies surrounding Observant reforms resulted in new sensibilities with regard to religious practices and religious nomenclature, which would fuel many of the early sixteenth-century controversies. Contributors are Michele Camaioni, Anna Campbell, Fabrizio Conti, Anna Dlabačová, Sylvie Duval, Koen Goudriaan, Emily Michelson, Alison More, Bert Roest, Anne Thayer, Johanneke Uphoff, Alessandro Vanoli, Ludovic Viallet, and Martina Wehrli-Johns.
The Cistercians in the Middle Ages
The Cistercians in the Middle Ages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cistercians in the Middle Ages write by Janet E. Burton. This book was released on 2011. The Cistercians in the Middle Ages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Cistercians (White Monks) were the most successful monastic experiment to emerge from the tumultuous intellectual and religious fervour of the 11th and 12th centuries. This book seeks to explore the phenomenon that was the Cistercian Order.
The World of Medieval Monasticism
The World of Medieval Monasticism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The World of Medieval Monasticism write by Gert Melville. This book was released on 2016. The World of Medieval Monasticism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book surveys the full panorama of ten centuries of Christian monastic life. It moves from the deserts of Egypt and the Frankish monasteries of early medieval Europe to the religious ruptures of the eleventh and twelfth centuries and the reforms of the later Middle Ages. Throughout that story the book balances a rich sense of detail with a broader synthetic view. It presents the history of religious life and its orders as a complex braid woven from multiple strands: individual and community, spirit and institution, rule and custom, church and world. The result is a synthesis that places religious life at the center of European history and presents its institutions as key catalysts of Europe's move toward modernity.
