The World of Medieval Monasticism

Name: The World of Medieval Monasticism | Its History and Forms of Life
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Its History and Forms of Life

Gert Melville(Autor*in)

Liturgical Press

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Erschienen am 4. März 2016

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Intro
Titlepage
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword by Giles Constable
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Translator's Note
1. The Beginnings
Retreat from the World
The Establishment of Monastic Communities
The First Monasteries in Europe
2. The Benedictine Rule and Its Longevity
Benedict as "Textual Trace"
The Rule of Saint Benedict
The Career of Benedict and His Rule
The Second Benedict and the Reform of the Frankish Monasteries
3. The Flowering of the Benedictines
A New Beginning in Lotharingia
Cluny: The Establishment of Monastic Liberty
The "Cluniac Church": A Congregation of Monasteries
Ordo Cluniacensis
Church for the World
Monastic Life in Service of King and Nobility, Pope and Bishop
4. Return to the Desert
The New Hermits
To Live by One's Own Law
Charismatic Preaching and Religious Movements
A Return to the Institutions of the Church
5. The Regular Canons: The Clergy's New Self-Understanding
6. The Cistercians: Collegiality Instead of Hierarchy
Robert's Path from Molesme to Cîteaux and Back
The Measure of the Pure Rule
The Charter of Charity and the Invention of the "Order"
7. The Success of the Cistercian Model
From the Premonstratensians to the Gilbertines and the Carthusians
Cluny, Knights, and Hospitals: The Reform of Older Congregations and the Creation of New "Functional" Orders
8. Diversity and Competition
9. New Concepts of Belief
The Search for Religious Identity
Beguines and Humiliati: A New Lay Piety
"Holy Preachers" and "Lesser Brothers"
10. The Franciscans: A Mendicant Order with the Whole World as Its Monastery
Francis of Assisi and His Community
The Legacy of Francis
Clare of Assisi
11. The Dominicans: Holy Preaching and Pastoral Care
Dominic and the Building of a New Order
Rationality and Constitution in the Service of the Salvation of Souls
12. Transformations of Eremitical Life
The Carmelites: From the Mountain into the Cities
The Augustinian Hermits
13. A New Chapter in the Story of the Vita Religiosa
The Three Ages of Salvation History
Eremitical Congregations and the Work of Peter of Morrone
Devotio Moderna
The Revelations of Birgitta
14. Mendicant Orders in Conflict: Struggles over Poverty and Observance
15. Reformers and Reforms at the End of the Middle Ages
Reform from Above: Pope Benedict XII
Reform from Below: The Rise of the Observants
16. A Look Back
17. Fundamental Structures of the Vita Religiosa in the Middle Ages
The Individual and the Community
The Monastery and the Law
Institutional Forms: Establishment and Preservation
Constructing Particular Pasts
Cloister and World
Temporalia
On the Search for God toward Knowledge of the World
Chronology
Map
Bibliography
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