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

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This volume deals with the transformative force of Observant reforms during the long fifteenth century, and with the massive literary output by Observant religious, leading to encompassing models of religious perfection that had an effect far into the sixteenth century. Religious Orders and Religious Identity Formation, ca. 1420–1620: Discourses and Strategies of Observance
and Pastoral Engagement Copyright Contents List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1: Introduction 2: The Observance’s Women: New Models of Sanctity and Religious Discipline for the Female Dominican Observant Movement during the Fifteenth Century 3: Creating a Colettine Identity in an Observant and Post-Observant World: Narratives of the Colettine Reforms after 1447 4: Instruction and Construction: Sermons and the Formation of a Clarissan Identity in Nuremberg 5: Canonical Change and the Orders of ‘Franciscan’ Tertiaries 6: Transcending the Order: The Pursuit of Observance and Religious Identity Formation in the Low Countries, c. 1450–1500 7: Selections in a World of Multiple Options: The Witness of Thomas Swalwell, OSB 8: ‘The Prayer Booklet of Eternal Wisdom’ (Der ewigen wiszheit Betbüchlin, 1518): Catechistic Shaping of Religious Lay Identity 9: The Vineyard of Saint Francis 10: The Name of God, the Name of Saints, the Name of the Order: Reflections on the ‘Franciscan’ Identity during the Observant Period 11: The American Inquisition and the Arabic Language: A Short Note about the Invention of the Moriscos in the Sixteenth Century 12: Grids for Confessing Sins: Notes on Instruments for Pastoral Care in Late Medieval Milan 13: Capuchin Reform, Religious Dissent and Political Issues in Bernardino Ochino’s Preaching in and towards Italy (1535–1545) 14: How to Write a Conversionary Sermon: Rhetorical Influences and Religious Identity Index of Names Index of Places and Subjects