Religious Orders and Religious Identity Formation Ca. 1420-1620 : Discourses and Strategies of Observance and Pastoral Engagement

Roest, Bert (EDT); Uphoff, Johanneke (EDT)

ISBN 10: 9004309942 / ISBN 13: 9789004309944

Published by Brill, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Religious Orders and Religious Identity Formation Ca. 1420-1620 : Discourses and Strategies of Observance and Pastoral Engagement
• Publisher: Brill
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004309942
• ISBN 13: 9789004309944
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Bert Roest teaches Medieval History at Radboud University Nijmegen. His most recent publications include Order and Disorder: The Poor Clares between Foundation and Reform (Brill, 2013), and Franciscan Learning, Preaching and Mission c. 1220-1650(Brill, 2015).
Johanneke Uphoff is currently a doctoral student at the University of Groningen within the project group Cities of Readers: Religious Literacies in the Long Fifteenth Century. Her research investigates the participation of lay people in the transmission of religious knowledge.