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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).
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
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.
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...
Die Brüder vom Gemeinsamen Leben im 15. Jahrhundert in Deutschland
Die "Brüder vom Gemeinsamen Leben", die aus der Devotio Moderna Ende des 14. Jh. hervorgingen, strebten ein frommes und innerliches Leben an und banden sich mit Gütergemeinschaft durch einen privatrechtlichen Vertrag aneinander. 1401 kamen sie nach Deutschland und breiteten sich von Münster bis nach Württemberg aus. Auch wenn schon viel über die süddeutschen Brüder geforscht worden ist, so blieb die kirchenrechtliche Bindungsform doch bislang weitgehend offen. Die hier vorgelegte Untersuchung der Eingliederung der Brüder lässt nun auf eine vollgültige Aufnahme in die vita religiosa schließen.
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.
Das Predigtoeuvre des Rebdorfer Augustiner-Chorherren Balthasar Boehm († 1530)
Das in autographen Codices in der UB Eichstätt sowie in der BSB München überlieferte Predigtœuvre Balthasar Boehms entstand (um 1500) im Kontext der Reformen der Eichstätter Humanistenbischöfe und des Anschlusses des Klosters Rebdorf an die Windesheimer Kongregation. Der Kompilator schuf eine dem Umfang und der Systematik nach einmalige, den liturgischen Anlässen und Propria der Diözese und des Ordens verpflichtete Musterpredigtsammlung – gleich einer summa praedicandi – am Vorabend der Reformation. Das Werk kommt einem Gattungsarchiv gleich, das seiner Anlage nach, vom registrum bis zum argumentum, Schlüssel zur bibliothèque imaginaire des Christentums offeriert.
Die Architektur zisterziensischer Wirtschaftsbauten
Den Zisterziensern eilt seit jeher der Ruf vorbildlicher Asketen und tüchtiger Agrarpioniere voraus. Plakativ ist das Bild von Mönchen als Managern, die durch innovative Organisationsstrukturen und strenge Betriebsführung einen frühkapitalistischen, europaweit expandierenden Klosterkonzern schufen. Dieses Buch widmet sich den mittelalterlichen Wirtschaftsbauten des Ordens. Unter den angenommenen Vorzeichen einer protomodernen Wirtschaftspraxis ist es reizvoll, in den monumentalen Ökonomiegebäuden frühe, fabrikähnliche "Kathedralen der Arbeit" zu sehen, die der herausragenden Wertschätzung für die monastische Handarbeit in der Zisterzienserspiritualität architektonisch Ausdruck verleihen sollten.
