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My Favourite Things
Research into material culture has become one of the most important fields in medieval and early modern studies. While past research focused primarily on the objects as such, present interests have moved to humans and their ties to things. This volume concentrates on the perception of medieval and early modern material culture, in particular exceptional objects that can be seen as "favourite things". Contributions lead from theoretical issues to specific groups of objects, their exclusivity and function as social markers. The analyses address both religious and secular space.
Pastoral Care and Monasticism in Latin Christianity and Japanese Buddhism (ca. 800-1650)
Monasticism has a special position in the history of pastoral care. It produced innovations in various aspects of pastoral care despite, or more precisely, because of its isolation in legal or social terms from the secular world. The thirteen papers contained in this volume will reveal that there was a great variety in the ways pastoral care continued to be practised by monasticism, depending on time, space, and the nature of each religious order. Adopting a comparative approach, their historical and geographical range of investigation is not limited to medieval Europe but expands to the Americas and even to Japan in the early Modern Age. This volume bases on a conference held on 1 and 2 March 2019 at Okayama University, Japan, as part of the close collaboration between a Japanese research group on Christian/Buddhist religious movements and the Research Project "Monasteries in the High Middle Ages: Innovation Laboratories for European Life Designs and Regulatory Models" of the Saxon and the Heidelberg Academies of Sciences and Humanities, as well as the Research Center for Comparative History of Religious Orders (FOVOG, Dresden).
Queens, Princesses and Mendicants
The decades between ca 1280 and ca 1380 were marked by a striking affinity to the Mendicant orders on the part of many female members of royal and princely courts. And yet, "Queens, Princesses and Mendicants" is both an innovative and comparatively neglected juxtaposition in medieval studies, for historical research has generally tended to neglect the relationship between Mendicants and aristocratic women. This volume unites twelve articles written by experts from seven European countries. The contributions cover a wide array of medieval European kingdoms in order to facilitate direct comparisons. Was affinity towards the Mendicants a prevalent phenomenon in the late Middle Ages? Can one even term "philomendicantism" a late medieval European movement? The collection of essays provides answers to these and other questions within the field of gender, religious and cultural history.
Abbots and Abbesses as a Human Resource in the Ninth- to Twelfth-Century West
This volume provides a record of the response, by eight expert scholars in the field of medieval monastic studies, to the question "To what extent did abbots and abbesses contribute as a `human resource' to the development of reformed monastic communities in the ninth- to twelfth-century west?" Covering a broad geographical area, papers consider one or several of three key points of interest: the direct contribution of abbots and abbesses to the shaping of reformed realities; their influence over future modes of leadership; and the way in which later generations of monastics relied upon the memory of a leader's life and achievements to project current realities onto a legitimizing past.
Provost Georg Muestinger and the Introduction of the Raudnitz Reform Into Stift Klosterneuburg, 1418 - Ca. 1421
"The Council of Constance and the conclusion of the Papal Schism released long pent-up energies of reform throughout the Church and in the religious Orders in particular. The Austrian Visitation of 1418/19 which propelled Georg Muestinger to the highest position in Stift Klosterneuburg and introduced the Raudnitz Reform of canons regular into his ancient monastery, illustrates how these energies both cooperated and competed with each other to achieve a reform of religious life. The centerpiece of this work is the introduction of the Raudnitz Statutes into the monastery and Muestinger's adaptation of that legislation." --provided by publisher
Virtuosos of Faith
For over a thousand years, monks, nuns, canons, friars, and others under religious vows stood at the pinnacle of Western European society. For their ascetic sacrifices, their learning, piety, and expertise, they were accorded positions of power and influence, and a wide range of legal, financial and social privileges. As such they present an important opportunity to consider the nature and dynamics of an "elite" in medieval culture. Using medieval religious life as their interpretive lens, the essays of this volume seek to uncover the essential markers of elite status. They explore how those under vows claimed and manifested elite status in complex spiritual, temporal, and social combination...
De interiori domo sive Liber de conscientia. Der Traktat “Vom inneren Haus” oder “Das Buch vom Gewissen”
Der heute nahezu unbekannte Traktat De interiori domo zählte seit seiner Entstehung im 12. Jahrhundert zu den meistgelesenen geistlichen Mahn- und Erbauungsschriften des Mittelalters. Entsprechend seiner Intention, geistliche Führung für Nonnen, Mönche oder gemeinschaftlich unter einer Regel lebende Priester zu geben, bietet er Reflexionen über das Wesen Gottes und leitet dazu an, durch Beichte, Meditation und Gebet zur Einheit mit Gott zu gelangen. Zugleich stellt er eine der ersten systematischen Abhandlungen über das menschliche Gewissen und dessen Pflege dar. Er wird hier erstmals in kritischer Edition und moderner deutscher Übersetzung vorgelegt. Grundlegende Ausführungen zu zentralen Aspekten des Werks leiten die Ausgabe ein und erschließen einen neuen Zugang zum Verständnis des Traktats
Between Community and Seclusion
The fact that certain cultures and religions produced a way of life which, for the sake of self-perfection, expected its adherents to withdraw from various obligations to the world and to enter into the organisational structure of a monastic community obviously represents a constant anthropological foundation. The spectrum of monastic life within these various cultures was extremely diverse in its manifestations. It was the result of a high degree of flexibility in the face of constantly changing ideas about piety, social needs and concepts of community and individuality. However, an interreligious study with the aim of a scholarly analysis of comparable key elements across different monastic cultures does not exist yet. The editors as well as the authors of this volume are particularly interested in how monastic life was realised communally in many ways according to fixed norms and rules, how it shaped the understanding of community and civilisation and therefore made a decisive contribution to the formation of our cultural identity.
Der spanische Franciscanismo in der Neuen Welt
Nach der Entdeckung Amerikas entwickelte sich die Mission in der Neuen Welt zu einer zentralen Aufgabe für viele Brüder des Franziskanerordens. Einer der wirkmächtigsten unter ihnen war Fray Toribio de Benavente Motolinía, dem die vorliegende Arbeit gewidmet ist. Anhand dreier besonders aufschlussreicher Bereiche lässt sich sein spezifisch spanisch-franziskanisches Profil, sein Franciscanismo, deutlich aufzeigen: Sein eschatologisches Verständnis, seine franziskanischen Ideale, die er lebte und öffentlich präsentierte, und seine Missionsarbeit. Die Schriften Motolinías dienten vielen späteren Missionaren als Orientierungshilfe und Vorbild. Stephanie Righetti-Templer studierte Mittelalterliche Geschichte sowie Lateinamerikanische Geschichte und ist derzeit als Historikerin am Stadtmuseum Ingolstadt beschäftigt.
Klosterleben in der Kritik
Während verbale oder zeichenhafte Herabsetzungen des Säkularklerus bereits das Interesse der mediävistischen Forschung gefunden haben, bilden Angriffe gegen religiöse Orden und Gemeinschaften – mit Ausnahme der feindseligen Reaktionen auf die Bettelorden – ein noch immer randständiges Thema. Diesen Aspekt aufgreifend, nimmt der vorliegende Band negativ-kritischen Wahrnehmungen und Bewertungen monastischen Lebens in den Blick, die sich in polemischen Invektiven ebenso manifestierten wie in Spottgedichten oder satirischen Darstellungen. Indem historische Konstellationen herabsetzenden Sprechens über das Religiosentum exemplarisch betrachtet werden, möchten die Studien zu einer vertiefenden Beschäftigung mit Diskursivierungen der vita religiosa anregen.
