Sisters And Brothers Of The Common Life: The Devotio Moderna And The World Of The Later Middle Ages (The Middle Ages Series),Used

Sisters And Brothers Of The Common Life: The Devotio Moderna And The World Of The Later Middle Ages (The Middle Ages Series),Used

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The Devotio Moderna, or Modern Devout, puzzled their contemporaries. Beginning in the 1380s in market towns along the Ijssel River of the eastcentral Netherlands and in the county of Holland, they formed households organized as communes and forged lives centered on private devotion. They lived on city streets alongside their neighbors, managed properties and rents in common, and worked in the textile and book trades, all the while refusing to profess vows as members of any religious order or to acquire spouses and personal property as lay citizens. They defended their selfdesigned style of life as exemplary and sustained it in the face of opposition, their women labeled 'beguines' and their men 'lollards,' both meant as derogatory terms. Yet the movement grew, drawing in women and schoolboys, priests and laymen, and spreading outward toward Mnster, Flanders, and Cologne.The Devout were arguably more culturally significant than the Lollards and Beguines, yet they have

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