Religious Movements in the Middle Ages

by Grundmann, Herbert; Rowan, Steven; Lerner, Robert E.

• ISBN13: 9780268016494
• ISBN10: 0268016496
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr

Summary

"This translation makes available to the English-speaking world one of the greatest works of German historical scholarship from the twentieth century and one of the greatest works of medieval history ever written. Sixty years after its original publication, Religious Movements in the Middle Ages remains not only learned and powerful, but innovative -- even radical -- as well". -- Caroline Walker Bynum, Columbia University

Table of Contents

Translator's Note
Introduction to the Translation
Preface to the Reprinted Edition (1961)
Abbreviations
Introduction	p. 1
The Religious Movement in the Twelfth Century: "Apostolic Life" and "Christian Poverty"	p. 7
The Religious Movement under Innocent III: The Rise of New Types of Orders	p. 31
The Social Origins of Humiliati, Waldensians, and Franciscans	p. 69
The Origins of the Women's Religious Movement	p. 75
The Incorporation of the Women's Religious Movement into the Mendicant Orders	p. 89
The Beguines in the Thirteenth Century	p. 139
The Heresy of the "Free Spirit" in the Religious Movement of the Thirteenth Century	p. 153
The Origins of a Religious Literature in the Vernacular	p. 187
Appendix: Heresy in the Eleventh Century	p. 203
The Foundation of Orders and Heretical Sects in the Twelfth Century	p. 209
German Mysticism, Beguines, and the Heresy of the "Free Spirit"	p. 237
Notes	p. 247
Frequently Cited Works	p. 421
Index	p. 437
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