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Making and Breaking the Rules: Discussion, Implementation, and Consequences of Dominican Legislation
Cornelia Linde
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Description for Making and Breaking the Rules: Discussion, Implementation, and Consequences of Dominican Legislation
Hardback. This volume presents an interdisciplinary collection of essays that examine attempts to introduce internal unity as well as stable structures to Dominican life in medieval Europe. The contributions draw on both normative and non-normative sources to cover a wide range of topics, including liturgy, architecture, and punishments. Editor(s): Linde, Cornelia. Series: Studies of the German Historical Institute, London. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: 3H; HBLC1; HRAX; HRCC2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
The Dominican Order's exponential growth in the first decades of its existence brought with it the challenges of providing a stable organizational framework for the order and its members, and maintaining unity and cohesion, from local to provincial and order-wide levels. This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to exploring the theory and practice of introducing order in all areas of Dominican life by means of rules and guidelines. With the rich transmission of acts of Dominican general and provincial chapters providing a fruitful starting point, the essays branch out to take account of a wide range of materials, including ... Read more
The Dominican Order's exponential growth in the first decades of its existence brought with it the challenges of providing a stable organizational framework for the order and its members, and maintaining unity and cohesion, from local to provincial and order-wide levels. This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to exploring the theory and practice of introducing order in all areas of Dominican life by means of rules and guidelines. With the rich transmission of acts of Dominican general and provincial chapters providing a fruitful starting point, the essays branch out to take account of a wide range of materials, including ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Series
Studies of the German Historical Institute, London
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
440
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198800972
SKU
V9780198800972
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About Cornelia Linde
Cornelia Linde is a Research Fellow in Medieval History at the German Historical Institute London. She holds an MA in Medieval Latin, Classical Latin, and Auxiliary Sciences of History from the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and an MA in Cultural and Intellectual History as well as a Ph.D. in Combined Historical Studies from the Warburg Institute, University of London. ... Read more
Reviews for Making and Breaking the Rules: Discussion, Implementation, and Consequences of Dominican Legislation
This volume thus offers a fresh and balanced view of Dominican law and practice, especially due to its thematic, geographical and chronological breadth. It will stimulate further comparative research on subjects and regions that remain underexplored in institutional and religious history, e.g. Dominican communities in the Iberian and other provinces somewhat outside of the scholarly mainstream.
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