Poverty's Proprietors: Ownership and Mortal Sin at the Origins of the Observant Movement

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-17405-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 143, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 610 g

Reihe: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions

Focusing on the theme of property and community, this study offers a new account of the origins of fifteenth-century Observant reform in the monasteries and canonries of the southern Empire. Through close readings of unpublished texts, it traces how ideas about reformed community emerged, both beyond and within the religious orders, in the era of the Council of Constance. Focusing on reform among monks and canons in Bavaria and Austria to 1450, it then shows how those ideas were applied in practice, through reforming visitation and through a devotional culture steeped in the “new piety” of the day. These considerations allow the Observant Movement to offer fresh perspectives on the history religious community, reform, and the church in the fifteenth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mixson

Mixson, James (Jim)

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps and Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Cultures of Property between Cloister and World

PART I
2. Calls from Without
3. Revolt from Within

PART II
4. Property and Community between Principle and Practice
5. Property and Community between Penance and Perfection

Conclusion

Appendix: An Inventory of Works “On Property” and Their Manuscripts

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

James D. Mixson, Ph.D. (2002) in Medieval Studies, University of Notre Dame, is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Alabama. He is the author of several essays and translations on the history of religious life and Observant reform.