Between 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 embedded historiographical tendencies that have long distorted the complex dynamics of the late medieval world, Between Orders and Heresy is a major assessment of medieval religious belief and activity beyond and between the binary of orders and heresies
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Between Orders and Heresy suggests new ways of thinking about the modes of religious life that characterized the medieval religious experience.
List of Illustrations PrefaceJohn Van Engen 1. Introduction: Religion and Religious Worlds in BetweenJennifer 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 ParadigmsAmanda Power, University of Oxford 4. Hypocrites! Critiques of Religious Movements and Criticism of the Church, 1050–1300Sita Steckel, University of Münster 5. Crusading as a Religious Movement: Families, Community, and Lordship in a Vernacular FrameAnne E. Lester, Johns Hopkins University 6. Coming Together as an Apostolic Act: Confraternalism as an Umbrella for Medieval Religious MovementsNeslihan Şenocak, Columbia University 7. Reassessing the Links between “The Women’s Religious Movement” and “The Origins of a Religious Literature in the Vernacular” in FranceSean L. Field, University of Vermont 8. “More Useful in the Salvation of Others”: Beguines, Religio, and the Cura Mulierum at the Early SorbonneTanya Stabler Miller, Loyola University, Chicago 9. Between Charity and Controversy: The Grey Sisters, Liminality, and the Religious LifeAlison More, College of New Rochelle 10. Women, Power, and Religious Dissent: Why Women Never became HeresiarchsJanine Larmon Peterson, Maurist University 11. Navigating Saintly Circles: Margherita Colonna and the Women’s Religious Movement in RomeLezlie Knox, Marquette University 12. The “Clever Girls” of Prague: Beguines, Preachers, and Late Medieval Bohemian ReligionJana Grollová BibliographyIndex
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9781487502416
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2022-06-16
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University of Toronto Press
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720 gr
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235 mm
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159 mm
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27 mm
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U, P, 05, 06
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Biographical note

Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane is a professor of History and chair of the Social Sciences Division at University of Minnesota Morris. Anne E. Lester is the John W. Baldwin and Jenny Jochens Associate Chair in Medieval History at Johns Hopkins University.