John Van Engen: 1 book
Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life
The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
The Devotio Moderna, or Modern Devout, puzzled their contemporaries. Beginning in the 1380s in market towns along the Ijssel River of the east-central Netherlands and in the county of Holland, they formed households organized as communes and forged lives centered on private devotion. They lived on...
