Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Monastic Reform in an Age of Schism, Council and War
Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West
ISBN: 978-1-4724-7748-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
This book focuses on a little studied and distinctive reformed Benedictine congregation, the Celestine monks of France, at their apex of growth (c.1350-1450). It deals in depth with their religious culture - their ideology, their practice and how they maintained themselves - and represents the result of extensive manuscript and archival research in Paris and Avignon, bringing forth many pieces of evidence that have previously been ignored in published work. More than this, however, it proposes that the character of the French Celestine congregation, their growth, and the challenges they faced offer a new window on their age, revealing both for the history of the later medieval church as well as the history of French politics and society in the same era.
