Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / James D. Mixson and Bert Roest -- Introduction / James Mixson -- Ecclesiastical Institutions and Religious Life in the Observant Century / Gabriella Zarri -- Observant Reform’s Conceptual Frameworks between Principle and Practice / James Mixson -- Dynamics of Regulation, Innovation, and Invention / Alison More -- ‘Observance’ as Paradigm in Mendicant and Monastic Order Chronicles / Anne Huijbers -- ‘Quomodo discet sine docente?’ Observant Efforts towards Education and Pastoral Care / Pietro Delcorno -- Bernardino da Siena and Observant Preaching as a Vehicle for Religious Transformation / Carolyn Muessig -- Pawn Broking between Theory and Practice in Observant Socio-Economic Thought / Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli -- Reformers on Sorcery and Superstition / Michael D. Bailey -- Female Mysticism, Heterodoxy, and Reform / Tamar Herzig -- The Observance and the Confrontation with Early Protestantism / Bert Roest -- The Spanish Jeronymites’ Incorporation of the Isidrites in 1567 / Timothy J. Schmitz -- From Reconquista to Mission in the Early Modern World / Bert Roest -- Bibliography / James D. Mixson and Bert Roest -- Name Index / James D. Mixson and Bert Roest -- Subject Index / James D. Mixson and Bert Roest.

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The Observant Movement was a widespread effort to reform religious life across Europe. It took root around 1400, and for a century and more thereafter it inspired or shaped much that became central to European religion and culture. The Observants produced many of the leading religious figures of the later Middle Ages—Catherine of Siena, Bernardino of Siena and Savonarola in Italy, Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros in Spain, and in Germany Martin Luther himself. This volume provides scholars with a current, synthetic introduction to the Observant Movement. Its essays also seek collectively to expand the horizons of our study of Observant reform, and to open new avenues for future scholarship. Contributors are Michael D. Bailey, Pietro Delcorno, Tamar Herzig, Anne Huijbers, James D. Mixson, Alison More, Carolyn Muessig, Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli, Bert Roest, Timothy Schmitz, and Gabriella Zarri.