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Book SynopsisThe Observant Movement was a widespread effort to reform religious life across Europe. It took root around 1400, and for a century and more thereafter it inspired or shaped much that became central to European religion and culture. The Observants produced many of the leading religious figures of the later Middle Ages—Catherine of Siena, Bernardino of Siena and Savonarola in Italy, Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros in Spain, and in Germany Martin Luther himself. This volume provides scholars with a current, synthetic introduction to the Observant Movement. Its essays also seek collectively to expand the horizons of our study of Observant reform, and to open new avenues for future scholarship. Contributors are Michael D. Bailey, Pietro Delcorno, Tamar Herzig, Anne Huijbers, James D. Mixson, Alison More, Carolyn Muessig, Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli, Bert Roest, Timothy Schmitz, and Gabriella Zarri.
Trade Review“The volume should encourage and help scholars of Observant reform in the late Middle Ages to carry out truly comparative research, as it lays a very solid foundation for future study in this field.” Jan Stejskal, Palacký University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 1 (Spring 2017), pp. 338-339.
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction James Mixson and Bert Roest PART I OBSERVANT REFORM AS INSTITUTIONAL REFORM Ecclesiastical Institutions and Religious Life in the Observant Century Gabriella Zarri Observant Reform’s Conceptual Frameworks between Principle and Practice James D. Mixson Dynamics of Regulation, Innovation, and Invention Alison More “Observance” as Paradigm in Mendicant and Monastic Chronicles Anne Huijbers PART II OBSERVANT REFORM, SOCIETY AND CULTURE “Quomodo discet sine docente?” Observant Efforts towards Education and Pastoral Care Pietro Delcorno Bernardino da Siena and Observant Preaching as a Vehicle for Religious Transformation Carolyn Muessig Pawn Broking between Theory and Practice in Observant Socio-Economic Thought Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli Reformers on Sorcery and Superstition Michael D. Bailey Female Mysticism, Heterodoxy, and Reform Tamar Herzig PART III OBSERVANT LEGACIES The Observance and the Confrontation with Early Protestantism Bert Roest The Jeronymites and Reform in the Era of the Council of Trent Timothy Schmitz From Reconquista to Mission in the Early Modern World Bert Roest Bibliography Index List of Illustrations 1/ Statuti del Monte di Pietà di Firenze (secc. XV-XVII). Florence, Collezione Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze 2/ Libro di conti (riscontro di cassa) (1795). Bologna, Archivio della Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna 3/ Statuti del Monte di Pietà di Udine (1499). Udine, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Udine e Pordenone 4/ Gonfalone della Pietà (XV sec.). Modena, Palazzo Comunale 4a/ Gonfalone della Pietà (XV sec.). Modena, Palazzo Comunale, detail 5/ Marco da Montegallo, Tabula della salute (1494). Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale, inv. B.6 18.B
