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Book SynopsisBetween Orders and Heresy foregrounds the dynamic, creative, and diverse late medieval religious landscapes that flourished within the spaces of social and ecclesiastical structures.
This collection reconsiders the arguments put forward in Herbert Grundmann’s monumental book, Religious Movements in the Middle Ages, and challenges his traditional interpretive binary, recognized as the shared origins of many medieval religious movements. The contributors explore the social relationships fostered between secular clergy members, including parish priests, local canons, and aristocratic confessors, and examine the ways in which laypeople inspired and engaged in devotion beyond religious orders.
Each essay in the volume considers a major theme in medieval religious history, such as the implementation of apostolic ideals, pastoral relationships, crusade connections, vernacular traditions, and reform. Organized to historicize and challenge the deeply embe
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Preface John Van Engen 1. Introduction: Religion and Religious Worlds in Between Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane, University of Minnesota Morris, and Anne E. Lester, Johns Hopkins University 2. Herbert Grundmann: Confession and the “Religious Movements” Letha Böhringer, Universität zu Köln 3. Francis of Assisi, the Vita Apostolica, and the Roman Church: Rethinking the Paradigms Amanda Power, University of Oxford 4. Hypocrites! Critiques of Religious Movements and Criticism of the Church, 1050–1300 Sita Steckel, University of Münster 5. Crusading as a Religious Movement: Families, Community, and Lordship in a Vernacular Frame Anne E. Lester, Johns Hopkins University 6. Coming Together as an Apostolic Act: Confraternalism as an Umbrella for Medieval Religious Movements Neslihan Şenocak, Columbia University 7. Reassessing the Links between “The Women’s Religious Movement” and “The Origins of a Religious Literature in the Vernacular” in France Sean L. Field, University of Vermont 8. “More Useful in the Salvation of Others”: Beguines, Religio, and the Cura Mulierum at the Early Sorbonne Tanya Stabler Miller, Loyola University, Chicago 9. Between Charity and Controversy: The Grey Sisters, Liminality, and the Religious Life Alison More, College of New Rochelle 10. Women, Power, and Religious Dissent: Why Women Never became Heresiarchs Janine Larmon Peterson, Maurist University 11. Navigating Saintly Circles: Margherita Colonna and the Women’s Religious Movement in Rome Lezlie Knox, Marquette University 12. The “Clever Girls” of Prague: Beguines, Preachers, and Late Medieval Bohemian Religion Jana Grollová Bibliography Index
