Taming a brood of vipers : conflict and change in fourteenth-century Dominican convents /
Gamblers, cheats, womanizers and thieves, and cranky reformers who wanted their old Order back, flesh-and-blood men with complicated desires and knotty dispositions. Opening a rich trove of sources the annual chapter acts of the Dominican Order 's Province of Aragon Michael Vargas uncovers the...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston :
Brill,
[2011]
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| Series: | Medieval and early modern Iberian world ;
v. 42. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Gamblers, cheats, womanizers and thieves, and cranky reformers who wanted their old Order back, flesh-and-blood men with complicated desires and knotty dispositions. Opening a rich trove of sources the annual chapter acts of the Dominican Order 's Province of Aragon Michael Vargas uncovers the costly successes and institutional weaknesses that contributed to the distressing realities of Dominican conventual life in the troubled fourteenth century. Taming a Brood of Vipers finds Dominican friars engaged in activities very much at odds with our sense of the way it should have been, but removing. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 350 pages) : maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9004203168 (electronic bk.) 9789004203167 (electronic bk.) |
| ISSN: | 1569-1934 ; |