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Book SynopsisThe Vowed Life reflects on a paradox in the Church today: one that represents an important challenge to its mission and witness. Vows continue to be made sacramentally in the Church, yet there remains a great longing for a vowed life which would be truly transforming and life-giving. Vows are simultaneously alluring and unappealing: lay memberships of religious orders have escalated, yet very few traditional religious communities have attracted younger members due to their more demanding lifelong commitments. The Vowed Life explores why and how this has come to be, and how the Church urgently needs to respond to this paradoxical challenge. Returning to baptism as the anchor of all other Christian vows, a range of contributors consider whether the longing for forms of life that are profoundly life-changing is a displaced desire for something that should be intrinsic to Christian life. In a Church that prioritises pastoral sensitivity, they ask how those demands could be newly expressed for our culture. In seeking a coherent theology of vows in liturgical practice and sacramental context, they find that fresh attention to ‘the vowed life’ also has much to offer to the Church’s continuing conversations about sex, gender and identity, and to a ‘mixed ecology’ approach to the life of the Church and its mission.

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Book SynopsisThis essential companion for all pilgrims and visitors covers all the principal sites on the island of Iona - one of world's most visited holy places. Every Wednesday, there is a pilgrimage around the island and this guide follows its route, stopping at all the principal sites to reflect on the island's history rooted in Celtic spirituality, and to pray for the needs of the world.

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Book SynopsisThe work of Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) consists of mystical highlights, moments of stylistic beauty and traditional exegetical discourse. In contrast to previous studies this book does not limit itself to the historical and devotional side of Bernard, but brings to the fore his stylistic originality. Bernard emerges as a flexible thinker, a great dramatist and an adroit master of language who combines the fixed pattern of monastic life with the vicissitudes of extra-mural events. On the one hand, Bernard's writings are composed according to the rhythm of the uninterrupted ritual of prayer and singing inside the walls of the monastery. On the other hand, that ritual is interspersed with notions of love and death. The present study describes the literary devices through which Bernard shapes the monastic existence as a subtle blend of liturgical routine and uncontrollable events and emotions.Trade Review"Un beau livre..." I.R., Collectanea Cisterciensia, 1995. "Das Buch ist reich an treffenden Beobachtungen und geistreichen Formulierungen." Ulrich Köpf, Theologische Literaturzeitung, 1996.

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Book SynopsisThis volume deals with the intellectual world of “progressive” Benedictine and Cistercian monks who vicariously represent humanists in cloisters (Klosterhumanismus, Bibelhumanismus) in German speaking lands: Conradus Leontorius (1460-1511), Maulbronn, Benedictus Chelidonius (c.1460-1521), Nuremberg and Vienna, Bolfgangus Marius (1469-1544), Aldersbach in Bavaria, Henricus Urbanus (c. 1470-c.1539), Georgenthal in the region of Gotha and Erfurt, Vitus Bild Acropolitanus (1481-1529), Augsburg, and Nikolaus Ellenbog (1481-1543), Ottobeuren in Swabia. For the first time in historical-theological research, new insights are provided into the world of the “social group” called Monastic Humanists who emerged next to the better known Civic Humanists within the diverse, international phenomenon of Renaissance humanism.Trade ReviewOne may say that we do not get to know very much about the everyday life of the learned monks. But we do get to know that they had everyday problems like any other human beings, and that they sometimes solved these problems in a way that gave priority above almost all to their learned studies. These sketches also make it clear that the monks were quite different - in theology, spirituality, learned interests, and way of life, and cannot be brought together as a homogeneous collective. Their most common feature was perhaps their individuality. Anders Jarlert, Church History and Religious CultureTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword, Gerhard B. Winkler, O. Cist. Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1. An Editor of Latin Bibles and Works of the Church Fathers: Conradus Leontorius, Monk of Maulbronn 2. A Graecian, Christian Poet, and Playwright: Benedictus Chelidonius, Monk of Nuremberg, Abbot of the Schottenstift, Vienna 3. A Historiographer and Distinguished Verse Maker: Bolfgangus Marius, Monk of Aldersbach, Bavaria 4. A Latinist, Supporter of Reuchlin, and Editor of Christ-centered Poetry: Henricus Urbanus, Monk of Georgenthal, Thuringia 5. Jack-of-all-Trades: Vitus Bild Acropolitanus, Monk of Saints Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg 6. When Monks Were Eager to Study the Sacred Languages: Nikolaus Ellenbog, Monk of Ottobeuren, Swabia Conclusion Select Bibliography Index of Personal Names Index of Places Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisMedieval Franciscans prayed in hermitages and churches, on the road and in the piazza, with song and silence. The unique stories of these men and women, as their engaging texts, stunning architecture and breath-taking artwork suggest, are narratives of souls, enfleshed in their respective worlds of the leprosarium, university, or itinerant preaching. The essays in this book foster a nuanced perspective on Franciscan beliefs and spiritual practices by resisting the temptation to reduce their myriad accounts of prayer to an exclusive, univocal spirituality. By displaying the breadth and depth of these medieval Franciscans at prayer, these essays challenge contemporary readers to look anew at this “cloud of witnesses” from the past, who, both lay and religious, promoted a diversity of spiritual expression that found a familial focus in their mutual passion for the divine and the world they shared.Trade Review"For those wanting a scholarly read taking them to the roots of the Franciscan spiritual tradition....takes the reader further at every stage and will be an invaluable reference work for years to come." Nicholas Alan OSF, Franciscan, 21/3 (2009), 15. “Franciscans at Prayer is a most welcome contribution to those interested in medieval spirituality in general. It is of special interest to scholars of things Franciscan, who will find a wealth of material illuminating the lesser-known inner world of the Franciscan pious” Neslihan Senocak, Columbia University in Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 77/4, December 2009, pp 1041-1043Table of ContentsContributors include: Michael W.Blastic, Louisa A. Burnham, Ilia Delio, Edward Foley, Jean François Godet-Calogeras, Jay M. Hammond, J. A. Wayne Hellmann, Mary Beth Ingham, Timothy J. Johnson, Steven J. McMichael, Amy Neff, Amanda D. Quantz, Bert Roest, William J. Short, Diane V. Tomkinson, and Alessandro Vettori.

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Book SynopsisThis book makes a contribution to knowledge of the history of the Augustinian canons in England through a case study of one particular house in the south-west of the country. Plympton Priory in Devon was founded in 1121 by a bishop of Exeter, and through episcopal and lay donations of temporal and spiritual sources of income became one of the wealthiest houses of Augustinian canons in England. Analysis of surviving records reveals the multiplicity of connections existing between the canons and the laity, the secular clergy, the episcopacy, and the Crown until the priory’s dissolution. The result is a multi-faceted study of the roles played by an Augustinian house in society and within the Church in the late Middle Ages.Table of ContentsList of Maps Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Founding of Plympton Priory: Background and Context 2. Episcopal Support for the New Foundation: Donations to Plympton Priory from the Bishops of Exeter and Their Circle 3. Building the Endowment: Lay Benefactors, their Motives, and their Gifts 4. Managing the Inheritance: Gains, Losses, and Challenges in the Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Centuries 5. Maximizing the Inheritance: Plympton Priory and its Churches and Chapels 6. Plympton Priory and the Laity: Challenges to the Authority of the Priory 7. The Regular and the Secular: Plympton Priory and its Connections to the Secular Clergy 8. The Canons of Plympton Priory 9. The Patronage Case: The Crown, the Bishops of Exeter, and Plympton Priory 10. Dissolution Appendices Appendix I. The Spiritualia of Plympton Priory Appendix II. Charters from the Courtenay Cartulary Appendix III. The Taxatio of Pope Nicholas IV Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrancis of Assisi, whose Gospel performance captured the imagination of his day, fostered a movement of men and women who were fascinated by the transformative power of the embodied Word. Learned or unlettered, theologian or penitent, their shared conviction took form in various gestures, languages, and literary genres. For their part, medieval artisans and craftsmen reflected this Franciscan predilection to preach in architecture, frescoes, and reliquaries. In Franciscans and Preaching, scholars from Europe and North Amercia offer the first extensive English language study of medieval Franciscan preaching. Contributors are C. Colt Anderson, Joshua C. Benson, Michael W. Blastic, Jay M. Hammond, J.A. Wayne Hellmann, Timothy J. Johnson, Beverly M. Kienzle, Francesco Lucchini, Steven J. McMichael, Alison More, Stephen Mossman, Patrick Nold, Darleen Pryds, Amanda Quantz, Bert Roest, Michael Robson, Francisco Javier Rojo Alique, and Nicholas W. Youmans.Table of ContentsEditorial Note …ix Foreword Beverly M. Kienzle …xi Introduction: The Franciscan Fascination with the Word Timothy J. Johnson …1 SECTION ONE: GOSPEL LIFE AND PREACHING Preaching in the Early Franciscan Movement Michael W. Blastic …15 Franciscan Lay Women and the Charism to Preach Darleen Pryds …41 A Theology of Preaching – A Theology of Transformation The Life of St. Francis by Thomas of Celano J. A. Wayne Hellmann …59 SECTION TWO: THE ACADEMY AND PREACHING Franciscan Bodies and Souls: Bonaventure and Bacon on Scripture, Preaching, and the Cura Corporis / Cura Animae Timothy J. Johnson …73 Polemical Preaching at the University of Paris: Bonaventure’s Use of Paul as a Forerunner of Francis C. Colt Anderson …91 Haec Visio Rapit: Mystic Love and the Erotic in Bonaventure’s Sunday Sermons Nicholas W. Youmans …115 Matthew of Aquasparta’s Sermons on Theology Joshua C. Benson… 145 Poverty, History, and Liturgy in a Sermon Work of Bertrand de la Tour Patrick Nold… 175 SECTION THREE: PERCEPTIONS OF HOLINESS IN PREACHING Gracious Women Seeking Glory: Clare of Assisi and Elisabeth of Hungary in Franciscan Sermons Alison More …209 Preaching on St. Francis in Medieval Germany Stephen Mossman …231 Sermons Preached to the Friars Minor in the Thirteenth Century Michael Robson …273 SECTION FOUR: MEDIEVAL SOCIETY AND PREACHING Focus on the Family: Bernardino da Siena on the Common Good and the Nefarious Other Amanda D. Quantz …299 Roberto Caracciolo da Lecce and His Sermons on Muhammad and the Muslims (C. 1480) Steven J. McMichael …327 Fifteenth-Century Franciscan Preachers in Castile: The Example of Valladolid Francisco Javier Rojo-Alique… 353 SECTION FIVE: THE ART AND CRAFT OF PREACHING “Ne Effluat in Multiloquium Et Habeatur Honerosus”: The Art of Preaching in the Franciscan Tradition Bert Roest …383 Preaching by Image: The Counter Façade of the Basilica of St. Francis Jay M. Hammond …413 The Making of a Legend: The Reliquary of the Tongue and the Representation of St. Anthony of Padua as a Preacher Francesco Lucchini …451 Contributors …485 Illustration Section …491 Index of People and Places …519 Index of Texts and Themes …523

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Book SynopsisIn contrast with the growing belief in society that traditional religious institutions are losing credibility, there has been renewed interest in monasteries going beyond what is strictly defined as religious. There are, for example, increasingly numerous requests for cooking and gardening courses as well as guided tours in monasteries, the appeal of monastic products and media interest in the subject. In parallel with a strong crisis in its recruitment, monasticism in the Western world is experiencing a period of innovation and experiments accompanied by unexpected popularity, as is evidenced by numerous films and publications. We hope that this book will deepen the understanding of the specificity of monastic life in the in the contemporary world, in a religious area, and from a sociological point of view.Trade Review"This reader is an interesting document, with a specific focus on the widespread but underestimated social phenomenon of prayer, and the role it may play in different societies. The volume contributes to a broader empirical and theoretical understanding of prayer in a societal context." – Wim Vandewiele, University of Leuven / University of Antwerp / IKKS, in: Journal of Empirical Theology 28 (2015), 150-151Table of ContentsContents: List of Contributors Introduction: The State of the Art in the Sociology of Monasticism xiii Part 1: Catholic Monasticism 1 Monastic Asceticism and Everyday Life - Salvatore Abbruzzese 2 Virtuosity, “Folklorisation” and Cultural Protest: Monasticism as a Laboratory of the Confrontation between Christianity and Modernity - Danièle Hervieu-Léger 3 Female Monasticism in Italy: A Sociological Investigation - Giovanni Dalpiaz 4 Ethnography of Cloistered Life: Field Work into Silence - Francesca Sbardella 5 Redefinition of the Role of Monks in Modern Society: Economy as Monastic Opportunity - Isabelle Jonveaux 6 An Innovative Return to Tradition: Catholic Monasticism Redux - Stefania Palmisano 7 New Spirituality in Old Monasteries? - Kees De Groot, Jos Pieper and Willem Putman Part 2: Ex Oriente lux: Other forms of Monasticism 8 Athos Outside of Athos: Orthodox Monasticism in the West - Laurent Denizeau 9 Spiritual Direction in Orthodox Monasticism: The Elder Beyond Weber’s Theory of Charisma - Maria Hämmerli 10 A National Monasticism? Monastic Politics of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Syria - Anna Poujeau 11 Contemplative Spirituality and the Intermonastic Encounter Movement - Timon Reichl 12 Experiencing the Liminal: Understanding Separation and Transition among Buddhist Monastic Women in Contemporary Britain - Caroline Starkey 13 A Space of Mountains within a Forest of Buildings? Urban Buddhist Monasteries in Contemporary Korea - Florence Galmiche Part 3 Methodology and Classical Authors of the Sociology of Monasticism 14 Studying Contemporary Monasticism in Italy: An Anthropological and Historical Perspective - Maria Chiara Giorda, Javier González Díez, Sara Hejazi 15 Monasticism and Society in Max Weber and Ernst Troeltsch - Paul-André Turcotte 16 Séguy and the Monastic Utopia - Enzo Pace 17 A Sociology of Imagined Societies: Monasticism and Utopia - Jean Séguy Index

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Book SynopsisThis 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.Trade Review"[This book] makes a very useful contribution to scholarship of the Church at a crucial time of reform, initially Observant and later Protestant. It marshals textual, historical, and art historical evidence to this end... The book highlights the potential of this area for further study, especially using art historical and architectural evidence to investigate the Observance." - Yvonne McDermott, in: Renaissance Quarterly 70.2 (2017). "[The volume] thus succeeds in one of its primary goals, highlighting the greater need (and possibility) for a deeper understanding of this period of religious identity formation, both for its own sake and with regard to discussion of later issues of religious reform and challenge." - Stefan Visnjevac, in: Journal of Ecclesiastical History 68.4 (2017). "This volume, the thirteenth in the Brill Medieval Franciscans Series, represents one of the outcomes of a large interdisciplinary research project entitled Religious Orders and Religious Identity Formation c. 1420–c.1620 based at Radboud University, Nijmegen. It showcases the work of established and emerging scholars, presents much new material, and opens up several exciting lines of further research. [...] This is a very fascinating volume." Colmán Ó Clabaigh OSB in The Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies, 7 (2018), 358–361Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations vii Notes on Contributors viii 1 Introduction 1 Bert Roest and Johanneke Uphoff 2 The Observance’s Women: New Models of Sanctity and Religious Discipline for the Female Dominican Observant Movement during the Fifteenth Century 13 Sylvie Duval 3 Creating a Colettine Identity in an Observant and Post-Observant World: Narratives of the Colettine Reforms after 1447 32 Anna Campbell 4 Instruction and Construction: Sermons and the Formation of a Clarissan Identity in Nuremberg 48 Johanneke Uphoff 5 Canonical Change and the Orders of ‘Franciscan’ Tertiaries 69 Alison More 6 Transcending the Order: The Pursuit of Observance and Religious Identity Formation in the Low Countries, c. 1450–1500 86 Anna Dlabačova 7 Selections in a World of Multiple Options: The Witness of Thomas Swalwell, osb 110 Anne T. Thayer 8 ‘The Prayer Booklet of Eternal Wisdom’ (Der ewigen wiszheit Betbüchlin, 1518): Catechistic Shaping of Religious Lay Identity 126 Martina Wehrli-Johns 9 The Vineyard of Saint Francis 152 Koen Goudriaan 10 The Name of God, the Name of Saints, the Name of the Order: Reflections on the ‘Franciscan’ Identity during the Observant Period 172 Ludovic Viallet 11 The American Inquisition and the Arabic Language: A Short Note about the Invention of the Moriscos in the Sixteenth Century 191 Alessandro Vanoli 12 Grids for Confessing Sins: Notes on Instruments for Pastoral Care in Late Medieval Milan 201 Fabrizio Conti 13 Capuchin Reform, Religious Dissent and Political Issues in Bernardino Ochino’s Preaching in and towards Italy (1535–1545) 214 Michele Camaioni 14 How to Write a Conversionary Sermon: Rhetorical Influences and Religious Identity 235 Emily Michelson Index of Names 253 Index of Places and Subjects 256 List of Illustrations

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Book SynopsisThe volume theme is the distinctiveness of Jesuits and their ministries. It explores the quidditas Jesuitica, or the specifically Jesuit way(s) of proceeding in which Jesuits and their colleagues operated from historical, geographical, social, and cultural perspectives. Thanks to generous support of the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College, this volume is available in Open Access.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction Robert Aleksander Maryks 1 Francesco Benci and the Origins of Jesuit Neo-Latin Epic Paul Gwynne 2 Exploring the Distinctiveness of Neo-Latin Jesuit Didactic Poetry in Naples: The Case of Nicolò Partenio Giannettasio Claudia Schindler 3 Civic Education on Stage: Civic Values and Virtues in the Jesuit Schools of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Jolanta Rzegocka 4 “Ask the Jesuits to Send Verses from Rome”: The Society’s Networks and the European Dissemination of Devotional Music Daniele V. Filippi 5 Priestly Violence, Martyrdom, and Jesuits: The Case of Diego de Alfaro, S.J. (Paraguay 1639) Andrew Redden 6 Colonial Theodicy and the Jesuit Ascetic Ideal in José de Acosta’s Works on Spanish America Bryan Green 7 Purple Silk and Black Cotton: Francisco Cabral, S.J., and the Negotiation of Jesuit Attire in Japan (1570–73) Linda Zampol D’Ortia 8 Pedro de Ribadeneyra’s Vida del P. Ignacio de Loyola (1583) and Literary Culture in Early Modern Spain Rady Roldán-Figueroa 9 The Distinctiveness of the Society of Jesus’s Mission in Pedro de Ribadeneyra S.J.’s Historia ecclesiástica del schisma del Reyno de Inglaterra (1588) Spencer J. Weinreich 10 Discerning Skills: Psychological Insight at the Core of Jesuit Identity Cristiano Casalini 11 Distinctive Contours of Jesuit Enlightenment in France Jeffrey D. Burson 12 One Century of Science: The Jesuit Journal Brotéria (1902–2002) Francisco Malta Romeiras and Henrique Leitão Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisForming Catholic Communities assesses the histories of Irish, English and Scots colleges established abroad in the early-modern period for Catholic students. The contributions provide a co-ordinated series of case studies which reflect the most up-to-date research on the colleges. The essays address interactions with European states, international networking, educational frameworks, financial challenges, print culture and institutional survival into the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. From these essays, the colleges emerge as unexpectedly complex institutions. With their financial, pastoral, and intellectual networks, they provided an educational infrastructure that, whatever its short-comings, remained crucial to the domestic and international communities they served during more than two centuries.Trade Review“the editors have produced a volume which provides a series of insights into a phenomenon of genuine importance to British and Irish Catholicism.” Tadhg O' hAnnrachain, University College, Dublin. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 70, No. 1 (January 2019), p. 193.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction  Liam Chambers and Thomas O’Connor Part 1: Patronage and Service 1 Irish Collegians in Spanish Service (1560–1803)  Thomas O’Connor 2 Seraphic Sparks: The Irish Franciscan and Capuchin Colleges on the Continent  Mícheál Mac Craith 3 Pietas Austriaca and ‘Dispensers of Royal Authority’: The Early Irish Colleges and Habsburg Cultural Strategies  Declan M. Downey Part 2: Migration and Schooling 4 ‘Bullworks against the furie of heresie’: Identity, Education, and Mission in the English Jesuit College of St Omers  Jan Graffius 5 The English Benedictines in Eighteenth-Century Lorraine  Frédéric Richard-Maupillier Part 3: Faction and Finance 6 The Spanish Court, Ecclesiastical Patronage, and the Irish College of Santiago de Compostela (1611–17)  Ciaran O’Scea 7 The Early Failures of the Irish College Rome, 1628–78  Matteo Binasco 8 Financial Mismanagement at the Irish College, 1772–98  Christopher Korten Part 4: Print and Culture 9 English Recusant Controversy in Spanish Print Culture: Dissemination, Popularisation, Fictionalisation  Ana Sáez-Hidalgo 10 Creating an Irish Identity: Print, Culture, and the Irish Franciscans of Louvain  Marc Caball Part 5: Afterlives – Surviving the Nineteenth Century 11 The ‘British Establishments’, the Irish College in Paris and Restoration France, 1814–30  Liam Chambers 12 The Trouble with France: Making Scots Priests in France, 1818–78  Iida Saarinen 13 The Transformation of the Irish College, Paris: War, Education, and Administration, 1870–1918  Justin Dolan Stover Index

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Book SynopsisFounded in 910 by Duke William of Aquitaine, the abbey of Cluny rose to prominence in the eleventh century as the most influential and opulent center for monastic devotion in medieval Europe. While the twelfth century brought challenges, both internal and external, the Cluniacs showed remarkable adaptability in the changing religious climate of the high Middle Ages. Written by international experts representing a range of academic disciplines, the contributions to this volume examine the rich textual and material sources for Cluny’s history, offering not only a thorough introduction to the distinctive character of Cluniac monasticism in the Middle Ages, but also the lineaments of a detailed research agenda for the next generation of historians. Contributors are: Isabelle Rosé, Steven Vanderputten, Marc Saurette, Denyse Riche, Susan Boynton, Anne Baud, Sébastien Barret, Robert Berkhofer III, Isabelle Cochelin, Michael Hänchen, Gert Melville, Eliana Magnani, Constance B. Bouchard, Benjamin Pohl, and Scott G. Bruce.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Steven Vanderputten and Scott G. Bruce PART 1: A Brief History of Cluny and Cluniac Monasticism 1 Tenth-Century Cluny  Isabelle Rosé 2 The Emergence of the Ecclesia Cluniacensis  Steven Vanderputten 3 Challenges of the Twelfth Century  Marc Saurette 4 Cluny in the Later Middle Ages and Beyond  Denyse Riche PART 2: Cluniac Identities 5 Imagining Early Cluny in Abbatial Biographies  Steven Vanderputten 6 Shaping Cluniac Devotion  Susan Boynton 7 Archaeology and the Abbey of Cluny  Anne Baud 8 Shaping Cluniac Memory  Sébastien Barret PART 3: The Cares of the Cloister 9 Abbatial Lordship  Robert F. Berkhofer III 10 Discipline and the Problem of Cluny’s Customaries  Isabelle Cochelin 11 The General Chapter and Cluniac Legislation  Michael Hänchen and Gert Melville 12 Cluny and Religious Women  Eliana Magnani PART 4: Beyond the Cloister 13 Cluny and Lay Patronage  Constance B. Bouchard 14 The Problem of Cluniac Exemption  Benjamin Pohl 15 Cluny and the Crusades  Scott G. Bruce 16 The Relics of Cluny  Scott G. Bruce Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the dissemination of the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya tradition in Tang China (618–907) in the context of the dispersal of the state bureaucracy throughout the empire and the changing centre–periphery dynamics. The tradition’s development in China during the Tang Dynasty has traditionally been associated with northern China, particularly the capital city of Chang’an, where Daoxuan (596–667), the de facto founder of the “vinaya school” in China, resided. This book explores the dissemination of Daoxuan’s followers and the subsequent growth of interrelated regional vinaya movements across the Tang regional landscape.

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