Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Bert Roest and Johanneke Uphoff -- Introduction / Bert Roest and Johanneke Uphoff -- The Observance’s Women: New Models of Sanctity and Religious Discipline for the Female Dominican Observant Movement during the Fifteenth Century / Sylvie Duval -- Creating a Colettine Identity in an Observant and Post-Observant World: Narratives of the Colettine Reforms after 1447 / Anna Campbell -- Instruction and Construction: Sermons and the Formation of a Clarissan Identity in Nuremberg / Johanneke Uphoff -- Canonical Change and the Orders of ‘Franciscan’ Tertiaries / Alison More -- Transcending the Order: The Pursuit of Observance and Religious Identity Formation in the Low Countries, c. 1450–1500 / Anna Dlabačová -- Selections in a World of Multiple Options: The Witness of Thomas Swalwell, osb / Anne T. Thayer -- ‘The Prayer Booklet of Eternal Wisdom’ (Der ewigen wiszheit Betbüchlin, 1518): Catechistic Shaping of Religious Lay Identity / Martina Wehrli-Johns -- The Vineyard of Saint Francis / Koen Goudriaan -- The Name of God, the Name of Saints, the Name of the Order: Reflections on the ‘Franciscan’ Identity during the Observant Period / Ludovic Viallet -- The American Inquisition and the Arabic Language: A Short Note about the Invention of the Moriscos in the Sixteenth Century / Alessandro Vanoli -- Grids for Confessing Sins: Notes on Instruments for Pastoral Care in Late Medieval Milan / Fabrizio Conti -- Capuchin Reform, Religious Dissent and Political Issues in Bernardino Ochino’s Preaching in and towards Italy (1535–1545) / Michele Camaioni -- How to Write a Conversionary Sermon: Rhetorical Influences and Religious Identity / Emily Michelson -- Index of Names / Bert Roest and Johanneke Uphoff -- Index of Places and Subjects / Bert Roest and Johanneke Uphoff.

Available to subscribing member institutions only.

This volume deals with the transformative force of Observant reforms during the long fifteenth century, and with the massive literary output by Observant religious, a token of a profound pastoral professionalization that provided religious and lay people alike with encompassing models of religious perfection, as well as with new tools to shape their religious identity. The essays in this work contend that these models and tools had an ongoing effect far into the sixteenth century (on all sides of the emerging confessional divide). At the same time, the controversies surrounding Observant reforms resulted in new sensibilities with regard to religious practices and religious nomenclature, which would fuel many of the early sixteenth-century controversies. Contributors are Michele Camaioni, Anna Campbell, Fabrizio Conti, Anna Dlabačová, Sylvie Duval, Koen Goudriaan, Emily Michelson, Alison More, Bert Roest, Anne Thayer, Johanneke Uphoff, Alessandro Vanoli, Ludovic Viallet, and Martina Wehrli-Johns.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.