04230nam a22004331i 4500 ebr10780868 CaPaEBR m o d cr cn||||||||| 080416t20082008pauab ob 001 0 eng d 9780812223071 9780812290059 (e-book) CaPaEBR eng rda pn CaPaEBR (OCoLC)868967280 BV4405 .V36 2008eb 274/.05 22 Van Engen, John H. Sisters and brothers of the common life : the Devotio Moderna and the world of the later Middle Ages / John Van Engen. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2008] �2008 1 online resource (446 pages) : illustrations, maps. text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier The Middle Ages series Includes bibliographies (pages [389]-416) and index. Introduction: 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. Description based on print version record. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Christian communities History. Societies living in common without vows History. Communalism Religious aspects Christianity History. Spiritual life Christianity History. Electronic books. Print version: Van Engen, John H. Sisters and brothers of the common life. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2008] ix, 433 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. Middle Ages series 9780812223071 (DLC) 2008017462 (OCoLC)226389300 ebrary. Middle Ages series. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10780868 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 134461 134461