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The world of medieval monasticism : its history and forms of life /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Melville, Gert (Author)
Other Authors: Constable, Giles (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the German.
Published: Athens, Ohio : Collegeville, Minnesota : Cistercian Publications ; Liturgical Press, [2016]
Series:Cistercian studies series ; no. 263.
Subjects:
Monasticism and religious orders > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Monasticism and religious orders > Europe > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Monastic and religious life > Europe > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Monks > Europe > Social conditions.
Europe > Church history > 600-1500.
Kloster.
Orden.
Ordensleben.
Geschichte 300-1500
(lcsh)Monasticism and religious orders > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
(lcsh)Monasticism and religious orders > Europe > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
(lcsh)Monastic and religious life > Europe > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
(lcsh)Monks > Europe > Social conditions.
(lcsh)Europe > Church history > 600-1500.
Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents:
  • The beginnings
  • The Benedictine Rule and its longevity
  • The flowering of the Benedictines
  • Return to the desert
  • The regular canons: the clergy's new self-understanding
  • The Cistercians: collegiality instead of hierarchy
  • The success of the Cistercian model
  • Diversity and competition
  • New concepts of belief
  • The Franciscans: a mendicant order with the whole world as its monastery
  • The Dominicans: holy preaching and pastoral care
  • Transformations of eremitical life
  • A new chapter in the story of the Vita religiosa
  • Mendicant orders in conflict: struggles over poverty and observance
  • Reformers and reforms at the end of the Middle Ages
  • A look back
  • Fundamental structures of the Vita religiosa in the Middle Ages.