Women's history in the age of Reformation: Johannes Meyer's chronicle of the Dominican observance

"In his work The Book of the Reformation of the Order of Preachers, the Dominican friar Johannes Meyer (1422-1485) drew on letters, treatises, and other written records, as well as interviews, oral accounts, and his own personal experience, to record the blossoming of the greatest reform moveme...

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1. Verfasser: Meyer, Johannes 1422-1485 (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Jones, Claire Taylor (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies [2019]
Schriftenreihe:Mediaeval sources in translation 58
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Zusammenfassung:"In his work The Book of the Reformation of the Order of Preachers, the Dominican friar Johannes Meyer (1422-1485) drew on letters, treatises, and other written records, as well as interviews, oral accounts, and his own personal experience, to record the blossoming of the greatest reform movement to sweep through Germany before the Protestant Reformation: the Observant reform. The result is this sprawling, eclectic, yet curiously intimate account of the men--but mostly of the women--who devoted their lives to revitalizing the Dominican order in southern Germany. With his reliance on their accounts and archives and respect for their intellectual abilities and spiritual resolve, Meyer’s treatment of medieval Dominican women provides a model from which today’s historians stand to learn. The introduction contextualizes Meyer’s celebratory work within a more objective historical background; it is followed by a full translation, making this remarkable history available to English-speaking readers for the first time."
Beschreibung:Übersetzung von: "Buch der Reformacio Predigerordens"
Beschreibung:306 Seiten Karten 23 cm
ISBN:9780888443083