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Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life - The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle Ages (Paperback)
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Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life - The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle Ages (Paperback)
Series: The Middle Ages Series
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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 "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 Munster, 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 1370s and the 1440s. In Sisters and Brothers of the
Common Life, Van Engen grasps the Devout in their humanity,
communities, and beliefs, and places them firmly within the urban
societies of the Low Countries and the cultures we call late
medieval.
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