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Shaping Stability: The Normation and Formation of Religious Life in the Middle Ages

Shaping Stability: The Normation and Formation of Religious Life in the Middle Ages

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Series: Disciplina Monastica, Book 11

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral Christianity

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ISBN10: 2503566952
ISBN13: 9782503566955
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Published: Apr 30 2016
Pages: 300
Weight: 2.11
Height: 0.80 Width: 8.40 Depth: 10.60
Language: English
This volume examines the efforts of medieval religious communities and orders to bring stability to the dynamic complexity of organized religious life. By focusing on legislative structures and normative documents (rules, customaries, constitutions), the authors address not only such matters as the meaning of these texts and the motivations behind them, but also the evolving conditions of their production and use, the internal politics of institutional change, and the reality of precept not practice. These papers thus present spiritual principles and social practices in their historical and functional contexts, confront normative programs with formative processes, and explain distinctive modes and models of life within the broader landscape of medieval organized religion.

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